Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:38:13 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dani=EBl?= Mantione <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
Cc: mroos@linux.ee, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atyfb still broken on 2.4.23-pre4 (on sparc64)
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:58:26 +0200 (CEST)
Dani?l Mantione <daniel@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl> wrote:

> > Please, can we revert your changes if we can't fix Sparc quickly?
> 
> Well, the problem is, there are really a *lot* of chips sold which I
> fixed.

And you broke one of the primary users of the atyfb driver,
the sparc64 platform.

We don't even get a console if this driver is non-functional,
that's the part you don't understand.  On x86 one can at least
use the VGA or Vesa drivers, we simply don't have that option.

So effectively, you've made 2.4.23-preX completely nonusable for
the vast majority of sparc64 users.

> Well, the only way to fix this is to work with you of course.

Your change is a major regression and we should revert it until
the kinks are worked out.
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