Re: v880 and debian/stable

[Chris McClimans <Chris.McClimansNOSPAM@ttu.edu>]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 06:21  PM, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:03:40PM -0500, Chris McClimans wrote:
> > I found a few accounts of v880 debian install attempts but no one 
> > seems
> > to have had any success. Ben Collins seems had some interesting
> > attempts with smaller tftp image sizes as recent as October of last
> > year, but I wanted to see if there have been any developments 
> > elsewhere.
> > Has anyone been able to get the linux kernel to boot in any fashion on
> > a v880?
> > -chris
> >
> > Ref:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200307/
> > msg00020.html
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200210/
> > msg00137.html
>
> I'd be willing to bet it needs the recent fixes I sent to Dave Miller
> for the newer OBP's. There's no kernel images with that fix yet, but 
> one
> is coming soon.
>
> The v210 is a IIIi cpu, and it requires a newer PCI controller driver
> that Dave has been working on lately. Maybe we'll get it working soon.

What email list / development place do these type of  changes take 
place (linux kernel mailing list?)
I'd like to wrap my head around the issue personally if possible.
-chris