From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HGH1c-0004Ob-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:54:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1BFrhII004512; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:53:43 GMT Received: from smtp105.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp105.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.238]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1BFrgxA004507 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:53:43 GMT Received: (qmail 24408 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2007 15:53:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Date:From:X-X-Sender:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=IFOS/2RCBwQguLPNrddsf8TmJiRT/C/fzVGA9gnbZPvuKpP8FK2yTaPlw5A63lmzqMG2dpJA4jQ4KPWgiv8IXHC3pBBEcRTlgIoglU41lkG4OD0p0Jvi3HayPi8zFb2mC3PteQ1LM9Dvo45YkuOaO1qn0SmipvcWHXTB+EGoFm0= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.254.7?) (jscottkasten@72.185.69.24 with login) by smtp105.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2007 15:53:42 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Nr5hBPkVM1l8.qax5LcUFVbWf0BUlIjXCkCYdF6dvalf89y4BCAvpp346RDAkD4tYcQ6amjWhPP9IVsbBhD_Bi_E4UYkOJg8Fd2bGSrtcrtXow8rCEnVXRhR6fAf.BSAVxEUcUG2N60awL4- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:36:29 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Scott Kasten" X-X-Sender: jsk@bluefang.tetracon-eng.net To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Indigo2 IP22 [Was LiveCD RC6] In-Reply-To: <20070211092711.2e1361ec@azathoth.beerandrocks.net> Message-ID: References: <45B4C1D5.2040905@gentoo.org> <45CC1ABA.2070900@gentoo.org> <45CEDEAB.7040203@gentoo.org> <20070211092711.2e1361ec@azathoth.beerandrocks.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 2186a8b5-5fec-40ac-862a-5db38e7777e4 X-Archives-Hash: edf9d92ea332ae27565eaffed5b1db91 Hmmm...that's unfortunate. Does anyone know how to contact him? He hasn't had a chance to learn to hate me yet...maybe I might have some luck. -S- On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > Depends on your definition of vaporware. If "doing 90% of the > work and then refusing to release the code because he never quite > finishes any fucking project and is embarrased by his code" qualifies, > then yes, it is vaporware. This guy has a history of doing exactly > this, and it is extremely frustrating. Also, he absolutely refuses to > provide the patch if you ask him directly. > > >> http://www.tal.org/~milang/o2/ >> >> Got to this site. It's mostly O2 stuff, but if you look carefully in >> his screen shots, there are two that are supposedly of this FB >> console for extreme. One shows text, another a floating boxes >> animation. > > That is indeed onion's site. > > >> Go into his kernel directory, and you can download the IP22 kernel >> ready to run. > > Yes, I have tested this kernel and it does indeed work. Again though, > no code... > > >> I looked carefully through all his patches and links. The extreme >> patch is not to be found. I don't even see an email for this >> "milang" fellow. However, interestingly, some of the kernel config >> files are labled "onion". >> >> If we get lucky, the right search terms in the world brain (google) >> might just yeild fruit. I'll keep poking at it. > > No, it won't. If there isn't a patch on onion's site, then there isn't > a patch anywhere (unless by chance somebody else independently wrote a > patch and then never bothered to announce it to the linux-mips > community). > > -Steve > -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list