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On 09/23/2014 09:16, Alex Deucher wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 09/22/2014 10:44, Alex Deucher wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> I've made a unified patch against linux-3.16.0 available to get Octane working |
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>>>> for anyone with such a machine again. I still have to re-work the patchset for |
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>>>> mips-sources to include this, but that will take a while longer. I'll try to |
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>>>> get stages uploaded in a few days someplace as well, along with the minimal |
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>>>> netboot initramfs. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Full info is available here on the forums: |
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>>>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7621340.html |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> For review purposes and probably a better chance of spotting bugs, it |
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>>> would be nice if you could break you patch up into manageable pieces |
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>>> and send then out as git patches. E.g., precursor patches, core |
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>>> support patches, individual new driver patches. |
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>>> |
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>>> Alex |
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>> The goal is to eventually get this into linux-mips upstream by breaking it up |
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>> into separate patches for review. Right now, though, I just wanted to put |
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>> something out there for others to hack on and maybe improve things. There are |
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>> still some drivers that Octane uses that can work on other systems that have |
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>> problems on those other systems. Specifically, the IOC3 metadriver. That |
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>> doesn't work on IP27 right now, and that's the bare minimum that has to be |
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>> fixed before I can send things upstream, since upstream won't accept two |
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>> different variants of IOC3 code for two different systems. |
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> IMHO, it's easier for others to contribute and improve things if you |
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> break the patch up. Some one familiar with the ioc3 hw may take the |
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> time to look at a few ioc3 patches, but quickly get discouraged trying |
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> to sift through a huge patch that touches tons of unrelated things. |
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> You might also want to provide a git tree so others can easily grab |
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> the changes. |
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> Just my 2 cents. |
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Agreed completely. I'm just a bit disorganized in my hacking and haven't sat |
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down to fully separate the various bits up into logical components and drop |
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them into a git tree. It's on the TODO list, because I'll need git's |
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capabilities to eventually organize things into a patch set to send upstream |
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(and I have to look into quilt, too). |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our |
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lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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