Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 27/08/18 10:39, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > Christian, > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > >> <casca...@minaslivre.org> wrote: > >>> There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > >>> that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a > >>> real bug in the driver. > >>> > >>> I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer. > >>> Christian, would you be willing to test patches to the driver? That > >>> would require some back and forth between us and some patience of yours, > >>> as I would be doing it on my spare time, considering I have family and > >>> other projects I would like to attend to as well. > >>> > >>> I don't have a PPC Macbook of my own, but I used to fix Linux drivers on > >>> PPC64 for a living not too long ago. > >> > >> That's a good news ! Feel free to use the bug report #841044 to send > >> your patch (and/or updates). > > > > Any update on the patch ? > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841044#30 > > FWIW QEMU now has sungem emulation which may help when trying to track > down overflow errors such as this.
Is this bug still relevant/present or can the bug be closed by now? Regards, Salvatore
