From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2378.80.7.99.14.1091135695.squirrel@80.7.99.14> In-Reply-To: <9ef20ef3040729083748c883c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <9ef20ef304071613494a0f0af9@mail.gmail.com> <20040717014441.GA13447@pegasos> <20040729135130.GE19197@lst.de> <9ef20ef3040729070439f6d8c1@mail.gmail.com> <20040729141631.GA20149@lst.de> <2717.217.46.152.97.1091113282.squirrel@217.46.152.97> <9ef20ef3040729083748c883c6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:14:55 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: rs/6000 e30 + 240 (doral) support From: "Leigh Brown" To: "Gustavo Barbieri" Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Sven Luther" , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Gustavo Barbieri said: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:01:22 +0100 (BST), Leigh Brown > wrote: >> Christoph Hellwig said: >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:04:48AM -0300, Gustavo Barbieri wrote: >> >> > Most doesn't look too bad to me, but it's a lot of patches. I >> vaguely >> >> > remember they were discussed on linuxppc-dev, so we should check >> the >> >> > comments over there. >> >> >> >> A lot of patches? Well, there is a lot of "code"... it's not really >> >> code, but just structure definitions... actually the patche touches >> >> the real code at few points, one it's just a null pointer checking, >> >> other are added cases to the switch statement so it can handle those >> >> boards, so I really can't a problem there. >> >> >> >> I already sent an email to linuxppc-dev in the past, but no replies: >> >> >> >> http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200407/msg00085.html >> > >> > Ah sorry, I confused it with Len's big IBM prep patchkit. Except for >> a >> > tiny style issue this patch is fine with me. >> > >> > Any upstream comments as I'd hate to carry along a patch like that in >> > the Debian patchkit while we'd probably want it in Sarge. >> > >> > Gustavo, if we apply this patch you'll have to sign up for d-i testing >> > on prep, though ;-) >> >> I have a more comprehensive set of patches that remove the need for >> ugly hard-coded tables on RS/6000 PReP boxes, that I previously >> posted to linuxppc-dev. I'll freshen them up tonight and post them >> again. They provide generic support for the E20, E30, 140, 240, F30, >> and F40 and probably a few other ones that we don't know about, if >> we're lucky. The F40 has problems but all the other work fine. > > Hello Leigh, > > Thanks for your original patch! > > This patch you mean is the one in the TODO of those files? Using residual > data? Correct. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/