Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn> wrote:
>> Dear Andreas,
>> 浜? 2013/6/25 3:20, Andreas Barth ???:
>>
>>>>> 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.
>
>>>
>>> So, let's perhaps look at the situation again in two months and see
>>> where we are and if it's worth to do something else inbetween or not.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Andi
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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