Re: UltraSPARC T3 kernel patches
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:03:41PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:39:04 +0000
>
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 07:23:28PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >> Thanks. I've built a test source package including all necessary
> >> patches and a test build is running now. Ben tells me, however, that
> >> 3.0.2 which includes all these patches and fixes is expected to come
> >> out on Monday, and will be uploaded to unstable shortly after that, so
> >> I don't think it makes sense to commit them as a separate patch set
> >> anymore.
> >
> > It took a while, but the daily installer images [0] now include a
> > kernel which should support Niagara T3. David, if you could try it out
> > and report your findings, it would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I would like to use this opportunity to thank Ben and the rest of the
> > kernel team for their efforts on making installer udebs built directly
> > from Debian kernel package source. That means that in the future new
> > kernels will be available in the daily installer builds pretty much
> > immediately after the new Debian kernel package is uploaded.
> >
> > [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> These won't install on my T3 because of a lack of the mpt2sas driver
> which is needed to see the onboard disks.
Thanks for testing. I've committed a fix to Debian kernel svn repo
which will add mpt2sas to installer udebs with next kernel upload.
I'll let you know once it makes it into the daily installer images.
Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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