Acorn Community: Reporting Bugs and Other Gripes

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Hi,

After visiting the Acorn Show today and talking to various people, some
interesting points have been raised:

1. Confusion about where problems should be reported.

   In general, the manufacturers of the hardware interfaces for network
   cards, SCSI cards and IDE cards do not maintain the Linux drivers.
   This means that they are not able to help with problems arising from
   using Linux with their hardware.

   ---> For this reason, I ask that people please contact the mailing    <---
   ---> list with problems with the use of these interfaces under Linux, <---
   ---> rather than with the manufacturers directly.                     <---

   In particular, I would be very interested to hear from the person who
   reported the following:

   a) Plain Filecore drive formatted on the motherboard interface, when
      connected to an ICS/APDL IDEFS interface is not able to be used with
      the RISC OS Linux tools.

   b) An ICS/APDL-formatted drive connected to the motherboard also can not
      be used in some way with the RISC OS tools.

   Could they contact me ASAP, so that I know the details of the problem.

2. From time to time, I have been asking a certain well-known magazine
   publisher in the old Acorn market about their interest in Linux.  It
   appears that they do not see ARM Linux as something that is worthy
   of their magazine.  They said that Linux was just "a small minority
   of people making a lot of noise."  Does the ARM Linux (Acorn)
   community have any reaction to that?

   The reaction should take into account whether you think that there
   should be some sort of magazine article about Linux, and if so, who
   should write it up.  I'll say "Not Me" now, before anyone gets any
   ideas. ;)

PS, how should the old "Acorn" community be referred to now?
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