From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38002D16.18CE0B58@tiac.net> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 02:07:19 -0400 From: Patrick Callahan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Burcaw , Geert Uytterhoeven , Kevin Hendricks , Tom Rini , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: New Kernel works great thanks! Now here's an offer to test what you're working on. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I'd like to help with the development efforts in the kernal and the FBDev X server. Although I don't have enough expertise to code changes, I do have enough to begin building and testing in an organized way. You provide me with a pre-built kernel, as many sets of kernel arguments and features you need tested on my Blue G3 rev 1 with Unimouse USB US keyboard, ADB keyboard and ADB mouse, and I'll try to get it done. Right now I've got Yellow Dog Linux's 2.2.12, and Linux PPC's XFree86-3.3.5c. These are working well together. For starters I'll just run as many tests as I have time for. But condsider this: It seems there's a lot of effort by individuals to get specific functionality working on specific hardware they have access to. From here it looks like a fragmented and chaotic group effort. (This has advantages and disadvantages) There is some form of communication going on behind the scenes somewhere that eventually gets this material into the main kernel tree. (I need to understand this process in more detail.) I'm wondering if there any central registry of who is working on what for the Kernel and XFree or is it a general free for all? Would an easy means of registering such activity help? How about the kind of testing I've offered above? Would a registry of people willing to do such tests help? Could such a registry record hardware and software configuration data from an individual's machine and their results? Could such a registery be consulted by those who are struggling with installing Linux for the first time, or installing it on a new combination of hardware. Could it help reduce the number of messages of the sort "my mfptymp framble won't work with kernel 2.2.6" Anyone want to start a web site like this? Comments? Suggestions? Flames? What? -Pat mfptymp framble? Don't you have one of those yet? ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/