"Ronald G. Minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The epia and epia-m ports have been in barely functional for a while.
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you must not have used them. I've been using EPIA for some 14 months now and they work fine, for both Linux and Plan 9.
Maybe what you meant is "Eric never liked that code anyways, so it's no loss" :-)
What I meant was that the code structure has been barely functional.
The code worked and I don't like the fact that it is broken at all. That is one of the reasons I have been working like mad to get the ports in the LinuxBIOS tree up and going again.
And the current code base cleanups have pushed them over the edge.
That I'll believe.
The difference from some of the other ports is those were just a matter of fixing up the references to the new way of handling things.
With the epia and epia-m ports you can't do that with simple code inspection.
If you know how things are supposed to work and can test it. Putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again should still be fairly doable. But it is not something someone who does not have a board and is not familiar with the details of the port can reasonably try.
Eric