Re: About Kurobox

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:05, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > > Then, I had to apply externally provided patches onto the netbsd-4
> > > source
> > > tree. There seem to exist patches for -HEAD too but I didn't try  
> > > them
> > > (yet).
> >
> > We'd appreciate it if you could give -current a shot - we rewrote
> > half of the powerpc-specific code ( like interrupt handling,
> > bus_space, bus_dma, PCI support and so on ) and there was a hell of a
> > lot of development in the rest of the kernel as well ( and userland,
> > like threading for instance ).
>
> I can try to apply the patches to -HEAD.
> The patches are here
> (http://www5.atwiki.jp/kuro-bsd/pages/4.html#id_a9f61c7e).
>
> > The right person to ask about sandpoint is Tohru Nishimura
> > (nisimura%netbsd.org@localhost) - he wrote the sandpoint-specific code and
> > actually made the port work properly again.
>
> OK. The contact for kuro_avrd is unreachable (SMTP unknow user).
> And I can't find a unsername/email in the japanese wiki.
> So I couldn't ask why the patches weren't in -HEAD and what the  
> official
> status of that box was.

I'm pretty sure Tohru Nishimura won't have any trouble reading that ;)

> > > What would make the patches go into the "official" source tree ?
> >
> > The first step is to actually show it to someone ;)
>
> Do you want a photograph ? :-p

Of the patch? ;)

have fun
Michael
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