[Aurora-sparc-user] Spam:****, Re: Any progress?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:39 -0400, Raylynn A Knight wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 13:08 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:02 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> > > When I installed Gentoo, do you mean?  If so, think it was 2.4.34
> > > (install CD saw both processors, too.  That was 2.4-smp.
> > 
> > Yeah, so this really doesn't prove much. If we reverted to 2.4, the esp
> > driver would start working again.
> > 
> > Debian, Aurora (and anyone else in 2007) is using 2.6. This is where the
> > esp driver has some issues on sparc32 (specifically, it has trouble
> > seeing the cdrom device).
> > 
> > ~spot
> > 
> I have some experience (ages ago circa 2.2.x) fixing SCSI drivers for
> the m68k Macintosh port.  I've not looked at the esp drivers for some
> time, but perhaps I can take a look at this issue.  Are all Sparc's
> using the esp driver experiencing the issue?   Which source tree should
> I look at?  If there is no maintainer for 32 bit Sparc how would I get
> any potential fix merged?

Dave Miller will commit fixes. He's just not committing to fix
anything. ;)

Only sparc32s with SCSI cdroms are having the problem, they don't see
the CDROM device. You should be able to reproduce this with a recent 2.6
kernel (2.6.21 or later).

~spot