Re: SILO Issues on an E4900
On 11/24/2016 05:10 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:29 +0100
>
>> For SILO, Oracle has created several patches which port SILO to 64-bit (I extracted
>> that patch and applied it to the Debian package) and other packages which improve
>> SILO on modern sun4v machines.
>
> All of the changes which were submitted to this list I reviewed and
> either they were poorly formed or did not apply cleanly at all.
That doesn't sound too good :(.
> Everything fell to /dev/null and the developers made no effort
> whatsoever to address the feedback and make the patches actually apply
> to the SILO git tree properly.
>
> The patches were not only poorly formed, or not able to apply to the
> GIT tree, they were also extremely poorly documented with either a
> very terse and vague commit message provided or none at all. When
> I would ask why a change was doing X or Y, I received no response
> at all.
Hmm. I have this small patch which enables 64-bit support. It's rather
clean and I'll try to submit it later today to get at least some
improvements.
Adrian
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