Re: A few Decstation questions.
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > I sent the patch to a web archive so anybody can grab it from there:
> > > http://www.infodrom.org/Mail-Archive/misc/2002/0005.html
> >
> > Ah, I never saw that patch. You better had send it to linux-fbdev-devel.
>
> I'm not sure where I sent it other than to James Simmons and you.
Looks like you sent it to James only...
> I thought that talking with the developers is more likely to be
> successful than dumping it into a mailing list. Maybe I was wrong.
Since both James and I are overloaded, the mailing list wouldn't hurt.
> Should I resend? If so, what's the hostname part of the list? vger?
Better wait, since Thiemo has a better patch?
No, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
> > For 2.4.x, it will be more difficult to get it in. Since MIPS is quite
> > out-of-sync with the mainline, I guess it's best to just keep it in the MIPS
> > CVS tree (Ralf?). Note that logo support for the HP300 TopCat card, which is
> > also monochrome on 8 bpp, is in Linux/m68k CVS only as well, and I don't really
> > intend to get that merged.
>
> Oh...
>
> Wouldn't it be useful to have all architecture kernels synced into the
> mainline somehow?
Yes, that's the ultimate goal. But I'm reluctant to try to get an ugly patch
integrated that's been used on perhaps one single TopCat card a few years ago.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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