On Monday 30 July 2007, paul_c wrote:
>On Wednesday 02 May 2007 17:07, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
>> Paul - do you know of any way to use the kernel firmware infrastructure
>> to load different firmware sets into multiple cards?
>
>Stephen - If/when you get elected to the "board" and succeed in restoring
> the CVS repository at Sourceforge
Paul, you are pulling my trigger now, full stop. The sourceforge cvs server
had an uptime problem, like it didn't have a usable uptime, and the
sourceforge folks weren't inclined, or were incapable of fixing it. The move
was, despite your constant harranging about it, the best move they could have
made at the time, and it gives them access to an automatic compile farm that
rebuilds everything with every commit it takes in, so they know about a typo
by a failure email in 5 minutes or less.
In the month or 6 weeks prior to moving it, I was unable to gain access a
single time, even after writing a script that tried every 30 minutes to do
a 'cvs up -Dp', with an exit if successfull. It was still merrily sleeping
for the next 30 minutes over a week later.
The move was the best thing these guys did, because it allowed them to work at
their own pace in developing emc2 instead of writing 10 lines of code and
then fighting to get into the cvs on sourceforge for a week or ten days to
commit it. That was not a productive environment, the current situation is
without a doubt.
To move it back to sourceforge, with their dismal track record, would be one
of the dumber things these hard working people could do.
> where we ALL can have access,
I also seem to recall that you _have_ been offered access on the linuxcnc
site, so why is it that you've not taken advantage of that? Or would you
rather complain? Recently that seems to be the most common thread of your
posts, and it is not flattering of what I think is an otherwise very talented
person.
> I'll show
> you how to handle firmware. Even with bit flipping and assorted sanity
> checks, it would amount to less than 250 lines of code with the added bonus
> of being portable across architectures and relatively immune to on going
> changes to the PCI subsystem within the kernel.
>
>
>Regards, Paul.
--
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