From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:06:19 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Derrik Pates Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, Christopher Murtagh , yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, Eric Leblond , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, "Kevin B. Hendricks" Subject: Re: Support for new Dual G4 1 Gig machines? Message-ID: <20020129220619.GH25973@opus.bloom.county> References: <20020129123955.29280@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:25:45AM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 benh@kernel.crashing.org wrote: > > > I recently spotted a problem with >512Mb (CONFIG_HIGHMEM or not) & SMP that > > is fixed in the current bk _2_4 (2.4.18pre7). I also sent a fix to Marcelo > > that should hopefully be in the next 2.4.18preX release. > > > > You should also use sungem preferably to the old gmac driver. > > Maybe you should officially deprecate the GMAC driver in favor of SunGEM, > then? Put something on its line in the config scripts that says > ***DEPRECATED***, and something in Configure.help for it that says > something like "Please DO NOT use me, use the SunGEM driver instead!" so > there's no question, so maybe someday it can be dropped? Well, I think the plan is to simply rm the file in 2.5.x :) Dropping it from 2.4.x is probably a bad idea, since it's not broken for old things. The defconfigs should probably be updated tho. :) -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/