On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 01:06:41PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:05:12PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:25:30PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> >>> I am hitting three Fix mes in this file and am wondering as the >> >> >>> maintainer how you would like >> >> >>> to clean them up. >> >> >> >> >> >> They may be addressed if we one day decide to give the sparc32 highmem >> >> >> support a big overhaul. Until then they are left as is. >> >> >> >> >> >> Sam >> >> > Very well then I will just not touch it until we are going to >> >> > overhaul the highmem for >> >> > sparc32. >> >> > Cheers Nick >> >> If you want I can fix the sparc32 highmem area with your help. I am new >> >> to the kernel so a little help if needed would be great when doing this work >> >> for you:). >> > >> > It will take a bit more than a "little help" to do such a task. Among other >> > things, owning a sparc32 box is one of them. Do you happen to have one? >> > Or do you have access to one? >> > >> > -- Steve >> > >> >> I understand that I don't have a sparc32 box , however if someone can >> test my fixes for me this >> may work. > No it will not work. > This is as many other areas something that require some knowledge plus > some trial-and-error to do. > > You should understand that things takes time to learn before you can go hacking > around in stuff. And highmem support in sparc32 is one such area. > Time are in some areas counted in months and in other areas counted in years. > This is not some simple userspace program - please try to understand this. > > Sam Ok that's fine. I just thought I could help. If there is anything please let me known. Cheers Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
