Re: Bug#841044: Problem with gem network card

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 27/08/18 10:39, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
> > Christian,
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
> >> <cascardo@minaslivre.org> wrote:
> >>> There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether
> >>> that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a
> >>> real bug in the driver.
> >>>
> >>> I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer.
> >>> Christian, would you be willing to test patches to the driver? That
> >>> would require some back and forth between us and some patience of yours,
> >>> as I would be doing it on my spare time, considering I have family and
> >>> other projects I would like to attend to as well.
> >>>
> >>> I don't have a PPC Macbook of my own, but I used to fix Linux drivers on
> >>> PPC64 for a living not too long ago.
> >>
> >> That's a good news ! Feel free to use the bug report #841044 to send
> >> your patch (and/or updates).
> > 
> > Any update on the patch ?
> > 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841044#30
> 
> FWIW QEMU now has sungem emulation which may help when trying to track
> down overflow errors such as this.

Is this bug still relevant/present or can the bug be closed by now?

Regards,
Salvatore