Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI Octane kernel patch available

[Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>]

On 09/23/2014 09:16, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 09/22/2014 10:44, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> I've made a unified patch against linux-3.16.0 available to get Octane working
>>>> for anyone with such a machine again.  I still have to re-work the patchset for
>>>> mips-sources to include this, but that will take a while longer.  I'll try to
>>>> get stages uploaded in a few days someplace as well, along with the minimal
>>>> netboot initramfs.
>>>>
>>>> Full info is available here on the forums:
>>>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7621340.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> For review purposes and probably a better chance of spotting bugs, it
>>> would be nice if you could break you patch up into manageable pieces
>>> and send then out as git patches.  E.g., precursor patches, core
>>> support patches, individual new driver patches.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>
>> The goal is to eventually get this into linux-mips upstream by breaking it up
>> into separate patches for review.  Right now, though, I just wanted to put
>> something out there for others to hack on and maybe improve things.  There are
>> still some drivers that Octane uses that can work on other systems that have
>> problems on those other systems.  Specifically, the IOC3 metadriver.  That
>> doesn't work on IP27 right now, and that's the bare minimum that has to be
>> fixed before I can send things upstream, since upstream won't accept two
>> different variants of IOC3 code for two different systems.
> 
> IMHO, it's easier for others to contribute and improve things if you
> break the patch up.  Some one familiar with the ioc3 hw may take the
> time to look at a few ioc3 patches, but quickly get discouraged trying
> to sift through a huge patch that touches tons of unrelated things.
> You might also want to provide a git tree so others can easily grab
> the changes.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.

Agreed completely.  I'm just a bit disorganized in my hacking and haven't sat
down to fully separate the various bits up into logical components and drop
them into a git tree.  It's on the TODO list, because I'll need git's
capabilities to eventually organize things into a patch set to send upstream
(and I have to look into quilt, too).

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

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