Re: non-free firmware
On 03/21/2017 10:59 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
>> Are you talking about the driver or the firmware?
>
> The driver (including the sparc kernel, true).
Ok. Then it's a bug that will need some git-bisecting.
>> 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 :-)
It happens. People are busy with work and there is sometimes lots
of traffic on the lists. I also didn't learn about this issue until
today and I'm on both the debian-sparc and the sparclinux mailing
lists.
>> 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.
Yes, then you need to keep pinging. Sometimes these things can take a
bit longer. I made the same experiences often enough.
As I said, you have the guy who worked on the endianness issue and
it's probably not a bad idea to ping him directly.
Don't give up :).
Adrian
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