On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 22:45 +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Hi, > > After giving it some thought, I've decided to significantly reduce my > involvement with the sparc port, mainly due to lack of motivation and > other responsibilities I'm in the process of assuming. Last two Debian > kernels (2.6.29 and 2.6.30) do not even boot on my sparc box, and I have > no interest whatsoever in tracking the reason for that down. If someone > out there is still interested in actively keeping sparc port afloat, I > would suggest to try and sort these kernel issues out first. Another > couple of problems I've made pretty much no progress on are disabling > CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE (bug 525958) and adding support for loading VIO > devices to udev (bug 526621). The former should improve the performance > on Niagara quite a bit, the latter should make the LDOMs usable on sparc > without manual tweaking. > > Good luck.
Thank you for all of your hard work over the years; I've appreciated it and I suspect many others have as well. Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
