From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:40:37 +0000 Subject: Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit Message-Id: <20070728.224037.39158363.davem@davemloft.net> 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 From: Mark Fortescue Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:18:50 +0100 (BST) > Do you have any Sparc32/generic Sparc patches that have not already been > pushded up to > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git No. > I have just tried out the latest commit on my sun4c SS1 and have found it > to have a NULL pointer bug. I can't give any details as the serial console > support is broaken and on the cgthree console, the information scrolled of > the top of the console before I had a chance to read any of the key > details. > > In addition, enabling CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY killed the > kernel while starting up the cgthree (it just stopped - no messages). > > Looks like I am going to have to step through the changes from my > working v2.6.22 kernel slowly. Yes, basically expect sparc32 to break as long as there is not a maintainer that constantly pulls from upstream and tests things on a frequent basis as I do for sparc64. Feel free to step up and be "the one" :-)