On 27/08/18 10:39, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Christian, > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo >> <casca...@minaslivre.org> wrote: >>> There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether >>> that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a >>> real bug in the driver. >>> >>> I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer. >>> Christian, would you be willing to test patches to the driver? That >>> would require some back and forth between us and some patience of yours, >>> as I would be doing it on my spare time, considering I have family and >>> other projects I would like to attend to as well. >>> >>> I don't have a PPC Macbook of my own, but I used to fix Linux drivers on >>> PPC64 for a living not too long ago. >> >> That's a good news ! Feel free to use the bug report #841044 to send >> your patch (and/or updates). > > Any update on the patch ? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841044#30
FWIW QEMU now has sungem emulation which may help when trying to track down overflow errors such as this. ATB, Mark.
