From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:53:14 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Michael Sokolov Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32 Message-ID: <20020408115314.B1048@home.com> References: <0204081818.AA21305@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0204081818.AA21305@ivan.Harhan.ORG>; from msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:18:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:18:43AM -0700, Michael Sokolov wrote: > Of course that fucker, then software eng. manager, now director of engineering > Art Webb, wanted PeeMON on it no matter how stupid. I obstructed them as much > as I could by not making a zImage for the Adirondack and telling them that it > couldn't be done and that one had to boot vmlinux directly on Adirondack. But > the fuckers did manage to put their PeeMON on Adirondack, of course stealing > all the very complex board init code from StarMON. They actually made it load > the vmlinux ELF image and pass it a bi_recs list. But the only info they put in > there was the memory size. No way to set the command line, select the root > device, or boot with an initrd. So it's basically unusable. But the fuckers > didn't care if they make a usable system or not, all they cared was that it > says "PMON" on it, whether it works or not. No wonder they've recently had two > big customer projects canceled from what I've heard, with that attitude. Michael, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. -- Matt Porter MontaVista Software, Inc. mporter@mvista.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/