Re: r3297 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11/debian: . patches patches/series
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:32:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Christoph, why in hell do you CC me on costa.debian.org and not use my
> @debian.org adress :)
I just did an reply to the commit mail..
> 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
that mail is to 90% a big base64 blob, people are too stupid to
configure their mailers these days :P
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