From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:18:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:41416 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20039404AbWJXPSH (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:18:07 +0100 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GcO2J-0002h9-Rh; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:17:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:17:51 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Aurelien Jarno Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: qemu initrd and ide support Message-ID: <20061024151751.GA10274@nevyn.them.org> References: <20061012211228.GA17383@nevyn.them.org> <452F9744.9010109@aurel32.net> <20061024130832.GA3768@bode.aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061024130832.GA3768@bode.aurel32.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13087 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:08:32PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > After a week of test, I can say that the IDE part is working correctly > (at least for me, and I suppose for you), I am using it on an emulated > system with ext3 as the root partition, and with swap. There are some > problems related to the userland tools (mke2fs) though. > > Therefore I propose to submit the IDE part to QEMU. I have extracted it > from your patch, which also contains initrd support. > > Care to send it? Could you do it? Since you've tested them more, and separated them, you might as well :-) I think that both this and the rd_size patch are good to submit. I hope that I can find the time at some point to fix the problems blocking a Debian installer, but right at the moment I don't know when I'll have time. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery