Good man, Ray. This would make my life much better, and perhaps get people into Linux on Sparc, again. I guess _not seeing_ the CD will have put a lot of people off.
Cheers, Chris. On 09/10/2007, Tom spot Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:39 -0400, Raylynn A Knight wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 13:08 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:02 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote: > > > > When I installed Gentoo, do you mean? If so, think it was 2.4.34 > > > > (install CD saw both processors, too. That was 2.4-smp. > > > > > > Yeah, so this really doesn't prove much. If we reverted to 2.4, the esp > > > driver would start working again. > > > > > > Debian, Aurora (and anyone else in 2007) is using 2.6. This is where the > > > esp driver has some issues on sparc32 (specifically, it has trouble > > > seeing the cdrom device). > > > > > > ~spot > > > > > I have some experience (ages ago circa 2.2.x) fixing SCSI drivers for > > the m68k Macintosh port. I've not looked at the esp drivers for some > > time, but perhaps I can take a look at this issue. Are all Sparc's > > using the esp driver experiencing the issue? Which source tree should > > I look at? If there is no maintainer for 32 bit Sparc how would I get > > any potential fix merged? > > Dave Miller will commit fixes. He's just not committing to fix > anything. ;) > > Only sparc32s with SCSI cdroms are having the problem, they don't see > the CDROM device. You should be able to reproduce this with a recent 2.6 > kernel (2.6.21 or later). > > ~spot > > _______________________________________________ > Aurora-sparc-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user > Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
