440bx ownership

[Richard Smith]

I see the 440bx is listed as unsupported.  Guess I need to pick up 
ownership of that.  What do I need to do?

Richard Smith wrote:
> I see the 440bx is listed as unsupported.  Guess I need to pick up 
> ownership of that.  What do I need to do?

I was the original 440bx developer.  iRobot currently uses a very old 
version of that stuff that fills our needs well enought that I haven't 
been able to find time to update to more recent code.  Though I continue 
to monitor the mailing list with interest, I would have a hard time 
arguing that I have taken any responsibility for it for, what, a couple 
of years how?

...no toes to step on here.

Though I'm so far out of date with respect to linuxbios that I may not 
be helpful, I'm not against attempting to answer questions that might 
come up.

Cheers!
Ty

[Richard Smith]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I was the original 440bx developer.  iRobot currently uses a very old
> version of that stuff that fills our needs well enought that I haven't

Oh.. I see how you are.. _Now_ you speak up after I've aready solved all 
my problems.  Where were you when I was tearing my hair out getting RAM 
up?  *grin*

Really, though, thanks for all your efforts.  It would have been a 
_whole_ lot more difficult if I would have had to start from scratch.
> been able to find time to update to more recent code.  Though I

That's done now. A large part of me debugging scheme was "Hmmm.. this 
seems broken.. Lets just replace it with Erik's generic code and see 
what happens."  I've submitted a patch to Ron who should check it in 
sometime in the future.
> Though I'm so far out of date with respect to linuxbios that I may not 
> be helpful, I'm not against attempting to answer questions that might 
> come up.

Perhaps I should send you my diff against the current CVS and let you 
take a gander an see if there is anything lurking out to bite me.

Got any generic 440bx board laying around that you could test the new 
code on?

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Richard Smith wrote:
> I see the 440bx is listed as unsupported.  Guess I need to pick up 
> ownership of that.  What do I need to do?

just tell me and I'll put you on. So you did it already :-)

ron