On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Major A wrote: > Unfortunately, I have no patches, I simply lack the time to > investigate these things any further. In the first place, I do > research, installing computers like this UP2000 for friends is a > secondary issue. And debugging it is of even lower priority. My > programming effort goes either into research or hardware that I've got > myself -- currently the LS-30 film scanner (improved SANE backend).
:-) I know the feeling. I've got quite a few archs at my house (mips, alpha, sparc/sparc64, i386, arm, m68k) and only really spend time on a few of them. > I'm just really surprised that 2.4.10 could be released without > checking it on alpha/smp -- I seem to be one of the few, if not the > only one who tried to compile it. Don't be surprised. We've had quite a few flamefests about how other archs are frequently broken on non-i386 archs and nobody finds out until the kernels are released. Most of the time, it's either ignored or incompletely applied patches upstream. C
