Hi all!
With all that "Merge in progress" and "Recovery progress" stuff, is the current CVS snapshot suitable for use with EPIA MII ? Or should I wait some time before trying it? How soon is it planned to finish all that "merger"?
* Alexander Amelkin spirit@reactor.ru [041022 08:48]:
Hi all!
With all that "Merge in progress" and "Recovery progress" stuff, is the current CVS snapshot suitable for use with EPIA MII ? Or should I wait some time before trying it? How soon is it planned to finish all that "merger"?
Talking about freebios2, epia-m does not build currently. You will either have to wait or look into fixing it ;-))
Stefan
Stefan Reinauer stepan@openbios.org writes:
- Alexander Amelkin spirit@reactor.ru [041022 08:48]:
Hi all!
With all that "Merge in progress" and "Recovery progress" stuff, is the current CVS snapshot suitable for use with EPIA MII ? Or should I wait some time before trying it? How soon is it planned to finish all that "merger"?
Talking about freebios2, epia-m does not build currently. You will either have to wait or look into fixing it ;-))
Alternatively you can do a cvs checkout with the date set earlier than the 14th of October and you can get the last version that built.
The epia and epia-m ports have been in barely functional for a while. And the current code base cleanups have pushed them over the edge.
The core work of the merger and core code enhancements are done now it is just a matter of getting everything cleaned up so that it will build and work again. And that requires people who can test the motherboard ports...
Eric
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The epia and epia-m ports have been in barely functional for a while.
??
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" :-)
And the current code base cleanups have pushed them over the edge.
That I'll believe.
ron
"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.
??
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
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
With all that "Merge in progress" and "Recovery progress" stuff, is the current CVS snapshot suitable for use with EPIA MII ? Or should I wait some time before trying it? How soon is it planned to finish all that "merger"?
well, here's the issue. Ollie and I have to go live in Infiniband Hell for the next 6 days. Then the week after that I will try to do EPIA, and if that goes, EPIA M-II.
Don't do an update until I say "EPIA works" or "EPIA MII" works or some such.
Or if you want, try to do EPIA MII yourself -- my guess is you will be happy with the ease with which you can do the port.
The code base is really a LOT better.
ron
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