Re: Sun4d progress

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:33 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I won't know for a while, no. I'll work on explaining what each of
>> these the changes in the patch are and breaking them up into logically
>> separate patches for submission to Marcelo, and run them past you and
>> Thomas Bogendoerfer beforehand.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:57:47PM +0100, C.Newport wrote:
> Thanks, please could you proof-read the patches very carefully against 
> the archive of Thomas's patches at 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m\x106467967231116&w=2
> I ended up transcribing these by hand, I have checked carefully for tyops
> but I am not infallible and extra pairs of eyes may spot something I have 
> missed.
> Something odd is going on - Thomas claimed that 2.4.23-pre5 booted but
> was unstable, which I cannot achieve. Maybe our environments are 
> different, but I have built this 4 times with 2.4.22 and 2.4.27 on both
> old and new compilers and the result is consistent. Maybe Thomas had
> applied some other patch before these ?.

I'm not very concerned by this. As it's a significant improvement over
the status quo I regard it mergeworthy.

-- wli