Re: Bug#841044: Problem with gem network card

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 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?

Actually think to close it for now, but feel free to reopen the bug if
this is still an issue which needs to be considered.

Regards,
Salvatore