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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:30:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4655856E.4040603@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91fcd7d6a83321c37f6769164b1b41ce78a07bfa.1179964369.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com>

Ben Collins wrote:
> This work around has been in use by almost any distribution trying to
> support sparc64 since at least 2002. Without it, sunhme hangs fairly
> quickly on UltraSPARC 1's.
> 
> Dave, I know it's not in the kernel because it isn't a "fix", but given
> that we haven't seen a fix in more than 5 years, can we get this out of my
> tree please? :)

Are you sure it is still needed? Gentoo dropped this a few months ago 
and have no regression reports.

http://www.mail-archive.com/sparclinux@vger.kernel.org/msg00418.html

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23 21:59 [PATCH 0/6] Patch sync from Ubuntu tree Ben Collins
2007-05-23 21:59 ` [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper Ben Collins
2007-05-24  3:15   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-24 20:44   ` [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper (fixed) Andrew Morton
2007-05-25 11:33   ` [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 12:52     ` Ben Collins
2007-05-25 19:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 23:23         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-25 23:28           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 23:38             ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-25 23:43               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 23:50                 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-05-25 23:50             ` Ben Collins
2007-05-25 23:52               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-23 22:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] PM: Do not require dev spew to get PM_DEBUG Ben Collins
2007-05-23 22:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] HCIUSB: Initialize the Broadcom USB Bluetooth device in Dell laptops Ben Collins
2007-05-24 17:02   ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-05-24 17:33     ` Ben Collins
2007-05-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] RTC: Ratelimit "lost interrupts" message Ben Collins
2007-05-24 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 20:56     ` Ben Collins
2007-05-24 21:09       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 21:15         ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-24 21:16         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-05-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's Ben Collins
2007-05-24  0:17   ` David Miller
2007-05-24  1:59     ` Ben Collins
2007-05-24 12:30   ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2007-05-23 22:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] UNUSUAL_DEV: Sync up some reported devices from Ubuntu Ben Collins
2007-05-24  3:59   ` Phil Dibowitz
2007-05-24  4:09     ` Ben Collins
2007-05-30 21:50   ` Dave Jones
2007-05-30 22:25     ` Phil Dibowitz

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