[PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[David Miller]

This is a respin of the sparc64 grub patches I posted
with changes based upon feedback (whitespace, use common
code, type police, don't include generated files, etc.)

It's also made against current top of trunk (there were
some sparc64-ieee1275.rmk changes in the past 24 hours
so this was necessary).

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:32:09PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> This is a respin of the sparc64 grub patches I posted
> with changes based upon feedback (whitespace, use common
> code, type police, don't include generated files, etc.)
> 
> It's also made against current top of trunk (there were
> some sparc64-ieee1275.rmk changes in the past 24 hours
> so this was necessary).

Hi David,

In the future, please send followup patches in the same thread.  It helps
keeping track of things, which is quite hard for us to keep up with already..

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[David Miller]

From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:01:10 +0100

> In the future, please send followup patches in the same thread.  It helps
> keeping track of things, which is quite hard for us to keep up with already..

Sure no problem.

What's going to happen with these patches?

I am able to boot into the GRUB kernel prompt on my test system,
I have a lot of new code written, I'm _EXTREMELY_ motivated
and want to get this all working fully in the next week or so.

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:01:10 +0100
> 
> > In the future, please send followup patches in the same thread.  It helps
> > keeping track of things, which is quite hard for us to keep up with already..
> 
> Sure no problem.
> 
> What's going to happen with these patches?

Well, we need time both for the paperwork and for reviewing them.  I'm not
sure how many of us are experienced with sparc (Vincent?  Who else?).  I at
least can comment on Ieee1275 stuff, so does Pavel, Marco, Manoel and probably
others.

We'll get there.  Just be patient :-)

> I am able to boot into the GRUB kernel prompt on my test system,
> I have a lot of new code written, I'm _EXTREMELY_ motivated
> and want to get this all working fully in the next week or so.

I'm very interested to see proper sparc support completed/merged.  Your effort
is much appreciated.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[David Miller]

From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:37:36 +0100

> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > I am able to boot into the GRUB kernel prompt on my test system,
> > I have a lot of new code written, I'm _EXTREMELY_ motivated
> > and want to get this all working fully in the next week or so.
> 
> I'm very interested to see proper sparc support completed/merged.  Your effort
> is much appreciated.

FWIW, everything other than actually booting a Linux kernel
is functional in my local tree.

This includes normal mode, bouncing between that and rescue mode,
loading modules, listing devices and files on ext2 filesystems, etc.

It all works.

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[David Miller]

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:26:35 -0800 (PST)

> FWIW, everything other than actually booting a Linux kernel
> is functional in my local tree.

Sparc64 Linux kernel booting now works in my tree too, even compressed
kernel images and initrd are fully functional.

I'll toss together a Solaris kernel loader just for completeness.

Re: [PATCH 0/10]: Respin of sparc patches.

[Vincent Pelletier]

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Le Saturday 07 March 2009 11:37:36 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> I'm not sure how many of us are experienced with sparc (Vincent?  Who
> else?).

I wouldn't call me experienced, except if it only means that I did 
experimentation with that arch :) .

> I'm very interested to see proper sparc support completed/merged.  Your
> effort is much appreciated.

+1

-- 
Vincent Pelletier

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