From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Daniël Mantione" <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
Cc: mroos@linux.ee, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atyfb still broken on 2.4.23-pre4 (on sparc64)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:38:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915143813.2011187f.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309151225300.24675-100000@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:58:26 +0200 (CEST)
Daniël Mantione <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> > Please, can we revert your changes if we can't fix Sparc quickly?
>
> Well, the problem is, there are really a *lot* of chips sold which I
> fixed.
And you broke one of the primary users of the atyfb driver,
the sparc64 platform.
We don't even get a console if this driver is non-functional,
that's the part you don't understand. On x86 one can at least
use the VGA or Vesa drivers, we simply don't have that option.
So effectively, you've made 2.4.23-preX completely nonusable for
the vast majority of sparc64 users.
> Well, the only way to fix this is to work with you of course.
Your change is a major regression and we should revert it until
the kinks are worked out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-14 9:02 atyfb still broken on 2.4.23-pre4 (on sparc64) Meelis Roos
2003-09-14 9:35 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 8:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 10:58 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:38 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-15 21:56 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 14:25 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-15 21:24 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-15 22:44 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-16 6:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-17 21:48 ` James Simmons
2003-09-16 12:18 ` Olaf Hering
2003-09-16 12:41 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-16 13:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-17 21:47 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 21:56 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-17 22:02 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 22:04 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 8:33 ` Meelis Roos
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