From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Daniël Mantione" <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: atyfb still broken on 2.4.23-pre4 (on sparc64)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:12:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063692749.585.64.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309160011540.24675-100000@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
> Same problem for me :)
>
> I did post the driver on the Linux-fbdev and LinuxPPC mailinglists.
> Replies: 0. I also asked you, you didn't have time, no problem, but again
> no test. It gets merged, people start testing...
I know the problem, but I'm opposed to doing that in the middle
of a stable release.
> I agree the stable series should have a stable driver, I proposed that
> Marcelo would merge the driver, I would aggressively investigate problems,
> and in case of serious trouble a revert.
Ok, but then, we need to make sure it works. Most people won't test
before 2.4.23 is final and released by distros and at this point it
will be too late.
> > Why don't you push it to 2.6 first then backport to 2.4 ? That would
> > be better imho...
>
> It's a possibility, Alexander Kern is porting the code to 2.6. But
> please wait a few days, it's quite likely things will be fixed and stable then.
Let's see...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-16 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-14 9:02 atyfb still broken on 2.4.23-pre4 (on sparc64) Meelis Roos
2003-09-14 9:35 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 8:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 10:58 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:38 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 21:56 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 14:25 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 21:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-15 21:24 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-15 22:44 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-16 6:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-17 21:48 ` James Simmons
2003-09-16 12:18 ` Olaf Hering
2003-09-16 12:41 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-16 13:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-17 21:47 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 21:56 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-17 22:02 ` James Simmons
2003-09-17 22:04 ` Daniël Mantione
2003-09-15 8:33 ` Meelis Roos
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