From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:00:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Sun4d progress Message-Id: <20040818220045.GO11200@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org 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&m6467967231116&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