Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:35, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
> >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
> >
> >
> > That has nothing to do with big players at all.
>
> Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-)
"big players" don't bother with board support for X Y or Z, most of that
kind of stuff is volunteer work in linux. AmigaOne could have fairly
decent and maintained support by just providing a board and eventually
some techs infos to an interested kernel hacker. Paying him would be
even better but I'm sure some would do the work just for a board or 2 ;)
> Seriously, I think Eyetech and MAI are being complete assholes on this
> one, but I would like to add that it would have been really cool if
> someone from the outside had half a chance in heck of figuring all of
> this out and actually get there in time to have a patch for something
> that is semi-current.
>
> Every time I manage to make something that looks like a patch for some
> version of Linux that version is obsoleted by something that breaks
> whatever I did. I may not be the smartest guy around, but at least I'm
> man enough to face the fact. I am not the right person to ask this of :-)
>
> I guess more manpower is the only way to go. Anyway, I have done a bit
> of work on two of the 4 or 5 (can't remember, it's been HOURS already
> :-) ) points I wrote down earlier, possibly enough to have it ready in
> less than 5 minutes (amiga-fdisk and kernel-package). The rest of the
> points are somewhat more work, but I'm going to contribute if there's
> more than me out there. At least it is a START, right? :-)
>
> But I guess the number of people with AmigaOnes who actually bothered to
> subscribe here is pretty low, even if I did hint a few _thousand_ times
> elsewhere that this was a good list for debian and powerpc related
> questions.
>
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> AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F):
> http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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