Re: debian unusable on niagara

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 18:04:28 +0100

> There is a bug filed for that (http://bugs.debian.org/525958), however
> I don't know what effect removal of this driver will have on machines
> which do not have another console (like no framebuffer device). I would
> like to ask people to test this change before uploading it into the
> archive.

Would you stop with this?

We have a driver for every conceivable console device on sparc,
framebuffer, serial, or otherwise.

We know this will fix real bugs and increase the bootup time on
niagara by a factor of 10.

I can't believe discussion is even necessary for this. :-/