On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:17:52PM +0000, Matt Sealey wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:36:19PM +0000, Matt Sealey wrote: > >>The link that Olaf presented, www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/46 *is* > >>the upstream support for now. What his patch does is say, the upstream > >>support exists, but we don't like it, so we will supplement the patch.. > > > >Matt, your work on efika.forth is laudable, and it is nice that you took > >the time to support it. > > > >*BUT* it is not acceptable for a distribution, or for someone who will > >have to do user support, to have to launch a second binary before > >launching the kernel. Especially when netbooting for example. > > Then I think you are all missing the fact that I said there *IS A REALLY > CUTE WAY OF INSTALLING IT ONCE* by uploading it into nvramrc, it will not > be a runnable script, but executed on boot, because it'll be flashed into > nvramrc. > > However I don't have the time to go into making this app, creating the > tools to munge efika.forth into a correct more uploadable format, and > creating the install tool. I barely have enough time to track this list > and make sure any drivers requiring firmware tree changes are taken care > of (I definitely lost the plot with the USB one, I haven't even checked > it even though I was asked to 2 weeks ago..) > > Unfortunately one guy who already has a significant amount of work to do > all day, who is not the responsible person for firmware issues, and is > not being assisted by anyone in the community either generated and > maintained by Genesi or existing around Linux, poses some serious problems > with timeliness of updates. > > If anyone wants to stop patching Linux and instead make efika.forth easier > to use, feel free, REALLY. Sven, are you volunteering for this REALLY > tiny task? It will probably take all of a day for a couple of guys to > work up the tools to do it based on very simple instructions and data > provided.. the work is probably worth the price of a pizza, so no > contracts are going to be worked out for it.
Just fix it conditionally in linux, like it is being proposed, and everyone is happy :) Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
