Good man, Ray. This would make my life much better, and perhaps get
people into Linux on Sparc, again. I guess _not seeing_ the CD will
have put a lot of people off.
Cheers,
Chris.
On 09/10/2007, Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:39 -0400, Raylynn A Knight wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 13:08 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:02 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
When I installed Gentoo, do you mean? If so, think it was 2.4.34
(install CD saw both processors, too. That was 2.4-smp.
Yeah, so this really doesn't prove much. If we reverted to 2.4, the esp
driver would start working again.
Debian, Aurora (and anyone else in 2007) is using 2.6. This is where the
esp driver has some issues on sparc32 (specifically, it has trouble
seeing the cdrom device).
~spot
I have some experience (ages ago circa 2.2.x) fixing SCSI drivers for
the m68k Macintosh port. I've not looked at the esp drivers for some
time, but perhaps I can take a look at this issue. Are all Sparc's
using the esp driver experiencing the issue? Which source tree should
I look at? If there is no maintainer for 32 bit Sparc how would I get
any potential fix merged?
Dave Miller will commit fixes. He's just not committing to fix
anything. ;)
Only sparc32s with SCSI cdroms are having the problem, they don't see
the CDROM device. You should be able to reproduce this with a recent 2.6
kernel (2.6.21 or later).
~spot
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