Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:09:41 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] floppy98.c: use kernel min/max |
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:59:29 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
| On Monday 19 of April 2004 17:51, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:14:15 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: | > | Hi Randy, | > | | > | I wonder if PC9800 fixes are worth the hassle as PC9800 merge | > | (AFAIR first patch went into 2.5.50!) was never finished. | > | | > | I think somebody should fix it or we should just remove it completely. | > | > I agree -- completely, on all counts, and I'm trying to take that up | > with Osamu Tomita, but he hasn't replied to my emails. | | :-( | | > BTW, I have fixes for about 95% of all of the PC-9800 modules | > and can successfully build a PC-9800 kernel, with IDE, SCSI, | | Cool, do you also have these patches? | http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.1/2045.html
I saw that, but I began with the latest linux98 tarball that I could find at http://sourceforge.jp/projects/linux98/, for 2.5.67-bk9. There are still lots of build issues with that tarball, but I have most of them fixed.
| BTW at least PC9800 IDE support needs reworking - it is one BIG hack
Not a surprise.
| > speaker, etc. However, I can't test it. So I think that it is | > fixable, but if it's been abandoned, it can also be removed. | | Yep, somebody needs to maintain it or at least report when it breaks.
Yup.
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