On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 02:51:05AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Jurij Smakov <ju...@wooyd.org> > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:45:31 +0000 > > > Thanks for pointing it out, David. > > Please contact me in the future if you guys want to add non-trivial > sparc specific changes. That's how you can keep stuff like this > from getting broken. > > You can't even install on these boxes because of this bug. > > It sounds very Ubuntu-esque that you can't get a fix like this > into the tree due to "timing issues." This is Debian for crying > out loud :-)
Unfortunately, we are literally few days away from the release, and reverting this patch would break X for everyone on sparc, so it is probably better to keep it that way for now. Release team has agreed, that a better solution would be to get the fix (which might take a while to develop) into the first point release. We would really appreciate your insight into the way to properly address this issue. To give a little bit of background, this patch was supposed to fix http://bugs.debian.org/500358. Bug trail contains all the gory details, but the crux of the problem (as I understand it) is the following: the commit [0] into the upstream git broke X on Debian/sparc [1]. The version of the X.org by that time was already frozen on all architectures in anticipation of the upcoming release, so rolling in a new version, compatible with the kernel change, was not really an option. The patch in question simply reverts this commit, restoring the kernel interface (for the lack of a better word) to the state, understood by X.org which we have available in Lenny. As I said, we would really appreciate any suggestions on how to keep the Lenny version of X working on sparc, yet allow the boxes with PCI-Express to boot. I'm also adding some people who have helped to come up with the current solution and the newly opened bug to CC. Thanks. [0] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c26d3c0138970778fabe114df99dffb34a04b1d7 [1] http://marc.info/?t=121247857800001&r=1&w=2 -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
