From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:50:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:53160 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491036Ab0LNSud (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:50:33 +0100 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oBEIoWnl011389; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:50:32 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oBEIoV85011376; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:50:31 GMT Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:50:30 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Anoop P.A." , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: SMTC support status in latest git head. Message-ID: <20101214185030.GA9930@linux-mips.org> References: <4D012560.6020003@paralogos.com> <4D07B859.2020805@paralogos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D07B859.2020805@paralogos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 28642 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:32:57AM -0800, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > I am no longer associated with MIPS Technologies and no longer have > access to my email archives from that period. If I did, I could tell you > which LMO kernel version(s) had SMTC working "out of the box". There > definitely was at least one, and I commented on it in an email. You > might be able to find it in the LMO email archives, but it's possible that > I only sent it to a MIPS internal mailing list. > > There was also a message I wrote that I had *thought* had gone to > the LMO mailing list, but may have only been sent to a group of internal > MIPS and customer engineers, in which I described the recommended > procedure for debugging exactly this canonical problem with porting > SMTC. git bisect to the rescue :) It's time consuming with a slow machine but perfectly doable. Go back, find some antique kernel version with functioning SMTC and take it from there. Ralf