Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:09:41 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zwane@linuxpower.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy98.c: use kernel min/max
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:59:29 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

| On Monday 19 of April 2004 17:51, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:14:15 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
| > | Hi Randy,
| > |
| > | I wonder if PC9800 fixes are worth the hassle as PC9800 merge
| > | (AFAIR first patch went into 2.5.50!) was never finished.
| > |
| > | I think somebody should fix it or we should just remove it completely.
| >
| > I agree -- completely, on all counts, and I'm trying to take that up
| > with Osamu Tomita, but he hasn't replied to my emails.
| 
| :-(
| 
| > BTW, I have fixes for about 95% of all of the PC-9800 modules
| > and can successfully build a PC-9800 kernel, with IDE, SCSI,
| 
| Cool, do you also have these patches?
| http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.1/2045.html

I saw that, but I began with the latest linux98 tarball that I
could find at http://sourceforge.jp/projects/linux98/, for
2.5.67-bk9.  There are still lots of build issues with that
tarball, but I have most of them fixed.


| BTW at least PC9800 IDE support needs reworking - it is one BIG hack

Not a surprise.

| > speaker, etc.  However, I can't test it.  So I think that it is
| > fixable, but if it's been abandoned, it can also be removed.
| 
| Yep, somebody needs to maintain it or at least report when it breaks.

Yup.

--
~Randy
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