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Bug#244548: would like SBUS support



Control: tag -1 wontfix

Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> (2004-04-18):
> SBus support is required to configure some network devices in Sun
> machines. Basically the output from prtconf(8) is enough to divine what
> modules to use. The modules are already available for 4 or 5 sbus
> ethernet devices in the latest linux-kernel-di-sparc upload, which is
> sitting in NEW.
> 
> If this is a 'not for sarge' issue, I will add a hack into ddetect.

Unfortunately sparc support is quite rare these days, and this arch is
almost out of testing. I'm going with a wontfix tag for now, in case
sparc gets better, and in case somebody feels like submitting a patch
for this wishlist bug report.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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