Re: [PATCH] floppy98.c: use kernel min/max

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 12:17:00 EST


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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