From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>,
Harald Koerfgen <hkoerfg@web.de>,
linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch] linux 2.4: DEC MS02-NV NVRAM module support
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:19:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020330001901.A31717@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020328140909.11187D-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:55PM +0100
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> The patch adds support for the DEC MS02-type lithium battery backed-up
> NVRAM board. The board provides 1MB (architecturally up to 4MB) of fast
> SRAM originally meant as a PrestoServe NFS accelerator for the MIPS-based
> DECstations.
>
> The code works fine for me since its creation back in August. It was not
> tested by anyone else -- after announcing the code at the "linux-mips"
> list last year I've read from two volunteers but they did not come back
> with results ever.
>
> I believe it's suitable for inclusion in the official kernel. The patch
> applies both to 2.4.19-pre4 and to the current CVS tree at oss.sgi.com.
Looks good, applied to 2.4 and 2.5.
If you would have submitted this patch without prior testing in August I
certainly would have approved it as well as it had not potencial to break
things for other machines.
Thanks,
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-30 8:20 UTC|newest]
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2002-03-28 13:26 [patch] linux 2.4: DEC MS02-NV NVRAM module support Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-03-30 8:19 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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