On 09/23/2014 09:16, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Joshua Kinard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 09/22/2014 10:44, Alex Deucher wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Joshua Kinard <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I've made a unified patch against linux-3.16.0 available to get Octane >>>> working >>>> for anyone with such a machine again. I still have to re-work the >>>> patchset for >>>> mips-sources to include this, but that will take a while longer. I'll try >>>> to >>>> get stages uploaded in a few days someplace as well, along with the minimal >>>> netboot initramfs. >>>> >>>> Full info is available here on the forums: >>>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7621340.html >>>> >>> >>> For review purposes and probably a better chance of spotting bugs, it >>> would be nice if you could break you patch up into manageable pieces >>> and send then out as git patches. E.g., precursor patches, core >>> support patches, individual new driver patches. >>> >>> Alex >> >> The goal is to eventually get this into linux-mips upstream by breaking it up >> into separate patches for review. Right now, though, I just wanted to put >> something out there for others to hack on and maybe improve things. There >> are >> still some drivers that Octane uses that can work on other systems that have >> problems on those other systems. Specifically, the IOC3 metadriver. That >> doesn't work on IP27 right now, and that's the bare minimum that has to be >> fixed before I can send things upstream, since upstream won't accept two >> different variants of IOC3 code for two different systems. > > IMHO, it's easier for others to contribute and improve things if you > break the patch up. Some one familiar with the ioc3 hw may take the > time to look at a few ioc3 patches, but quickly get discouraged trying > to sift through a huge patch that touches tons of unrelated things. > You might also want to provide a git tree so others can easily grab > the changes. > > Just my 2 cents.
Agreed completely. I'm just a bit disorganized in my hacking and haven't sat down to fully separate the various bits up into logical components and drop them into a git tree. It's on the TODO list, because I'll need git's capabilities to eventually organize things into a patch set to send upstream (and I have to look into quilt, too). -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS [email protected] 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
