Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-20 Thread Ben Bridgwater
> derive MVME147_SCSI from MVME147 & SCSI It seems that the preferred semantics would be: default MVME147_SCSI from MVME147 & SCSI That way the platform defines sane defaults, but no flexibility has been taken away. Presumably many of these defaulted options would also be ones that would be

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-20 Thread Ben Bridgwater
derive MVME147_SCSI from MVME147 SCSI It seems that the preferred semantics would be: default MVME147_SCSI from MVME147 SCSI That way the platform defines sane defaults, but no flexibility has been taken away. Presumably many of these defaulted options would also be ones that would be

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Miles Lane wrote: > > On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Miles Lane wrote: On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-10 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Ben Bridgwater wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > Setting DEBUG to 1 in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h gives you lots of > > info, including PIRQ debug data. > > I can try this tonite with 2.4.4 if this is going to be useful. > Well, I don't know how useful this

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-10 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Ben Bridgwater wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Setting DEBUG to 1 in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h gives you lots of info, including PIRQ debug data. I can try this tonite with 2.4.4 if this is going to be useful. Well, I don't know how useful this is going to be, since the kernel booted