Re: r3297 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian: . patches patches/series
Christoph, why in hell do you CC me on costa.debian.org and not use my
@debian.org adress :) I wonder if it is possible to set a default .forward on
all the random debian boxes people can send me mail too :)
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:05:47AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:44:14PM +0000, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Author: luther
> > Date: 2005-06-03 15:44:13 +0000 (Fri, 03 Jun 2005)
> > New Revision: 3297
> >
> > Added:
> > trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian/patches/powerpc-ppc64-ibmvscsi.patch
> > Modified:
> > trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian/changelog
> > trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian/patches/series/2.6.11-6
> > Log:
> > Added IBM eServer i/pSeries Virtual SCSI Target Driver patch.
>
> Care to explain why you add total piece of crap patches that aren't in
> mainline, nevermind even mentioned on public mailinglists?
Because i am trying to build kernels that work for ppc64 boxes, as nobody is
helping me out on this, i do what i can. Notice that this is stuff worked on
by Cajus, who apparently managed to get some IBM boxes donated to the
augsbourg university on behalf of the debian project, Altough i guess nobody
else knew about it, and i just recently found out about that.
Actually i should have added it to a a branch or something though.
That said, it is just a driver, if you don't enable it, you will never see it :)
And i am perfectly happy to drop it as not needed once i have a successfull
report on logical partitioned working, which is currently failing, as reported
by David Gaya, and his gentoo kernel worked. See the ppc64 mailing lists for
that.
> > + * Added patch for IBM eServer i/pSeries Virtual SCSI Target Driver from
> > + Dave Boutcher <boutcher@us.ibm.com>, needed for ppc64 boxes with virtual
> > + partitions, Thanks to Cajus Pollmeier for providing it.
> > + (Sven Luther)
>
> And no, it's totally not needed for these systems to work.
Ok, fine, what should be used then instead ? Can you provide your
enlightnement on what is needed here, and maybe comment on the above mentioned
failure ? The link seems to be :
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-ppc64-devel/2005-June/000123.html
further mail from David tells me that his gentoo kernel works, and he provided
me with the .config of it, but i hadn't had time to check this.
I didn't see you comment or test my ppc64 kernels though, which is somewhat of
a disappointement to me, as almost none of those knowledgeable people in this
or debian-kernel-related guys with the adequate hardware did manage to find
the time to test it, despite me asking for it. Oh well.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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