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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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>>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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Alex |