Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM, <chenhc@lemote.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn> wrote:
>>> Dear Andreas,
>>> 亁 2013/6/25 3:20, Andreas Barth 写道:
>>>
>>>>>> 3. We have currently two new machines with loongson 3a processors to
>>>>>> test. It will take a bit of time to finally get a working kernel on
>>>>>> these, but that would also decrease build-times quite much.
>>>>>
>>>>> When do you expect them to be usable?
>>>>
>>>> Depends on your definition of useable.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently in the process to get the kernel building and trying to
>>>> get the patches into upstream kernel. Besides of that, the hardware is
>>>> useable (the usual auto-power-on-patch is required as well, but that's
>>>> just a few days for doing it mechanically). However, currently with
>>>> only the factory kernel (which doesn't meet my definition of useable,
>>>> and I think also not yours). I suspect that I'm just a few pitfalls
>>>> away from getting this done, but nothing I could put say "takes this
>>>> many days". I'm also just trying since Saturday, so in the very early
>>>> stages and in discussion with upstream and vendor.
>>>
>>> I am surprised to read that a working kernel for 3A will be an issue.
>>> Any
>>> question
>>> you can contact chenhc@lemote.com. He is maintaining our kernel and
>>> trying
>>> hard to push patches upstream.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>
>> It is indeed an issue, and is the most blocking one. We have contacted
>> chenhc and we tried to merge those patches to mainline, but resulting
>> to a non-bootable kernel. The latest working kernel is Linux 3.6 based
>> on his branch, while 3D acceleration does not work like in Lemote's
>> 3.5 kernel.
> Really? I remember that you have a good kernel with the 3.9 branch in
> dev.lemote.com.
>
Unfortunately it does not boot, and it may caused by the difficulty of
handling massive merge conflicts with 3.9 version of Debian kernel.
The merge was success on 3.6 branch so we are running on it.
Regards,
Aron
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