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On 2/11/07, Kumba <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> Yeah, milang == onion. He's done this not only for Extreme's console driver, |
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> but also a semi-working O2 sound driver. In both cases, he's either claimed |
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> that his code quality is poor, or his girlfriend was taking up too much time, or |
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> some other lame excuse. Even when we randomly nag him on #mipslinux on IRC, he |
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> just ignores us now :P |
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> This is why for O2's driver, we've just randomly tinker with the only known |
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> source code version. Another linux-mips dev, Ladislav Michel (I think) of |
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> debian apparently also has/had a driver at one point for early 2.6. But I don't |
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> know if it's the same as the source one already out there (which was written by |
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> a "vivian", if I recall correctly), or if his is related to onion's purported |
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> driver at all. |
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> --Kumba |
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the "vivian" you mention is actually vivien aka glaurung... the |
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address for her site where her patches can be found is |
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http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/ |
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but I'm not enough of a kernel dude to check if there is indeed the |
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needed patch there... |
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hope this helps someone out there... :) |
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