From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g2U8K7o08991 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:20:07 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2U8K4v08988 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:20:04 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g2U8J1331741; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:19:01 -0800 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:19:01 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: David Woodhouse , Harald Koerfgen , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] linux 2.4: DEC MS02-NV NVRAM module support Message-ID: <20020330001901.A31717@dea.linux-mips.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:55PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > The patch adds support for the DEC MS02-type lithium battery backed-up > NVRAM board. The board provides 1MB (architecturally up to 4MB) of fast > SRAM originally meant as a PrestoServe NFS accelerator for the MIPS-based > DECstations. > > The code works fine for me since its creation back in August. It was not > tested by anyone else -- after announcing the code at the "linux-mips" > list last year I've read from two volunteers but they did not come back > with results ever. > > I believe it's suitable for inclusion in the official kernel. The patch > applies both to 2.4.19-pre4 and to the current CVS tree at oss.sgi.com. Looks good, applied to 2.4 and 2.5. If you would have submitted this patch without prior testing in August I certainly would have approved it as well as it had not potencial to break things for other machines. Thanks, Ralf