Bug#514418: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:05:21 +0000

> To give a little bit of background, this patch was supposed to fix 
> http://bugs.debian.org/500358. Bug trail contains all the gory 
> details, but the crux of the problem (as I understand it) is the 
> following: the commit [0] into the upstream git broke X on 
> Debian/sparc [1]. The version of the X.org by that time was already 
> frozen on all architectures in anticipation of the upcoming release, 
> so rolling in a new version, compatible with the kernel change, was 
> not really an option. The patch in question simply reverts this 
> commit, restoring the kernel interface (for the lack of a better word) 
> to the state, understood by X.org which we have available in Lenny.

So you're saying that X working is more important than machines
actually booting at all?  These priorities are wrong.

That kernel change got reverted upstream for a reason, it breaks
things.

If X is broken (which it is), you have to fix X.