Re: non-free firmware
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 10:34 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > And yes, because Debian sparc64 runs very well with a 3.16 kernel-
> > image. The sparc backported one to be clear.
> > I extracted the package and copied it manually into the new rootfs.
> > And updated the silo.conf.
>
> Are you talking about the driver or the firmware?
The driver (including the sparc kernel, true).
> > But maybe we just have to build a sparc64 package for it :-)
>
> No, we have to fix the actual bug. Jamming an old, unsupported kernel
> into a sparc64 package is a workaround, not a fix.
True, but nobody is listing. So being happy with a workaround :-)
> > > I also saw your report in the mailing list archives.
> >
> > And a real bug post, so being able tracking it ...
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110081
>
> You should add some SPARC kernel people to the CC of this bug report
> and also post this to the sparclinux kernel mailing list so you get
> some attention.
Sorry, but I did at least five sparclinux mailing list posts on this
topic, as well. With one of them pointing to the open bug report.
Thanks,
Frans van Berckel
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