From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B07E13838B for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F2CE0A9C; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB42E0A9C for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uPa31o0031YDfWL57Q0jVM; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:43 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.13] ([69.251.152.165]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id uQ0Z1o00f3aNLgd3gQ0Z49; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:43 +0000 Message-ID: <5420B81E.5020501@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:00:30 -0400 From: Joshua Kinard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI Octane kernel patch available References: <541FF01F.8020306@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1411430443; bh=XtHh8RugRB5dNCDk+u1389d3m4+hIGiPNd425f+ekYE=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=LMhyG32vcwh+PCr6KoO+1+kLV8s7CMC1TGNp6E+c0jJMQCleSx71WiUlV99RND1zE aj0Ls8aX5RIvJEod32D8CJjG8Ol1pUGsR8yDmb6SlUYaaNODcgu+0trZoST028023a rAeALin8Ht4IE45t52eQ8jXODhgDnujMlVoWqPNpzuj1rGI/EvaE9PpZ8BTYeVNbeP Adpy2ziZCri4TFL8/nKjJteNJwOb8L7IE/vne6A5ozetj+XgfMha6uiZvJdCMZs7Q/ IvT/LHjxKM8p4ijGADHgNl8LPg0CBXGGcthxxYvrQc1h9DhAdxOS4gIiIIAqzOaGYR cQNsSXEL76BTg== X-Archives-Salt: e413a40f-06e6-4171-baa8-487cddb1f649 X-Archives-Hash: 2ee3dbb36ece4008ab173469e0605978 On 09/22/2014 10:44, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> I've made a unified patch against linux-3.16.0 available to get Octane working >> for anyone with such a machine again. I still have to re-work the patchset for >> mips-sources to include this, but that will take a while longer. I'll try to >> get stages uploaded in a few days someplace as well, along with the minimal >> netboot initramfs. >> >> Full info is available here on the forums: >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7621340.html >> > > For review purposes and probably a better chance of spotting bugs, it > would be nice if you could break you patch up into manageable pieces > and send then out as git patches. E.g., precursor patches, core > support patches, individual new driver patches. > > Alex The goal is to eventually get this into linux-mips upstream by breaking it up into separate patches for review. Right now, though, I just wanted to put something out there for others to hack on and maybe improve things. There are still some drivers that Octane uses that can work on other systems that have problems on those other systems. Specifically, the IOC3 metadriver. That doesn't work on IP27 right now, and that's the bare minimum that has to be fixed before I can send things upstream, since upstream won't accept two different variants of IOC3 code for two different systems. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic