From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA76110 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA22543 for linux-list; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:00:48 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA28152 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:00:46 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA06697 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Received: from uni-koblenz.de (pmport-16.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.249.16]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA11921 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:00:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from ralf@localhost) by uni-koblenz.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00810; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 02:28:18 +0200 Message-ID: <19980820022818.D388@uni-koblenz.de> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 02:28:18 +0200 To: Thomas Bogendoerfer , Alex deVries Cc: SGI Linux Subject: Re: Merging for 2.1.116... References: <19980819233429.57253@alpha.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <19980819233429.57253@alpha.franken.de>; from Thomas Bogendoerfer on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:34:29PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:54:22PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote: > > Is someone going to take to task merging our latest kernel into 2.1.116? > > I exchanged some emails with Ralf, and he said, that he has started merging > with .115. I've commited the newport abscon and g364 fbcon driver, so > he could even test the merged sources:-) But I haven't heard anything since > then from him about the merge. > > > It would be really good to get everything in for 2.2. > > I doubt, that we will be able to merge all the stuff. But we will see. The code freeze has become a real freeze. Luckily we won't have to touch sensitive parts of the kernel except a couple of rather simple mm changes. > > I don't mind taking a stab at it, although I'm supposed to be packing for > > my move to Toronto in two weeks (finally!). > > looks like moving time everywhere. I'll move most of my stuff next > weekend. I've just finished merging and debugging .111. The new console code is nice, Thomas. It accelerated the Indy console from Sun 3 style performance to too fast to read performance. Things that I noticed - bb is still broken when using aalib's Linux console driver - We seem to have an off by one error. The topmost scanline is also being displayed at the bottom of the screen. - The display as programmed by Linux is somewhat offseted from IRIX's. Bad because one has to reduce the size of the display and still the display will wander around when switching between operating systems. - I broke the esp driver. Ralf