RE: AMD/ATI SB700 support to Debian

["Shane Huang" <shane.huang@amd.com>]

Hi Dann:


> Do you know of any reason these changes wouldn't work on a 2.6.18
> base? Would you be able to run QA on one of our daily builds if I
> pointed you to snapshot debs with these changes?

I'm sorry that I do not catch your meaning very much because I'm a
newbie
in Debian, I did not use Debian before and know little about it, the
distribution
I have being using for some time is Redhat/Fedora. My main task here is
to
check whether the SB700 patches have been added into the familiar
distributions
to be released such as Debian 4.1, RHEL5.1 and Fedora 8.

So could you give me more information about your questions? Such as:
What's the function/usage of "2.6.18 base"? Why are you still using it
if
next Debian 4.1 release will use the kernel after 2.6.23-rc1. etc

> The combined mode patch for sb700 depends on a quirk that was added
> for sb600 after 2.6.18. I could of course backport this quirk only for
> sb700, but is there a good reason for adding it for sb600 as well?

I think adding both the SB600 patch and SB700 is better, since the
distribution
can be used on motherboards with SB600 or SB700.

Thanks
Best Regards
Shane