From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:22:48 +0000 Subject: Re: SILO Issues on an E4900 Message-Id: <41d5e58d-c73b-9995-b97f-02b14e20b91b@physik.fu-berlin.de> List-Id: References: <62477e32a682342782e652fcfdbf9fb5@triadic.us> In-Reply-To: <62477e32a682342782e652fcfdbf9fb5@triadic.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 11/24/2016 05:10 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:29 +0100 > >> For SILO, Oracle has created several patches which port SILO to 64-bit (I extracted >> that patch and applied it to the Debian package) and other packages which improve >> SILO on modern sun4v machines. > > All of the changes which were submitted to this list I reviewed and > either they were poorly formed or did not apply cleanly at all. That doesn't sound too good :(. > Everything fell to /dev/null and the developers made no effort > whatsoever to address the feedback and make the patches actually apply > to the SILO git tree properly. > > The patches were not only poorly formed, or not able to apply to the > GIT tree, they were also extremely poorly documented with either a > very terse and vague commit message provided or none at all. When > I would ask why a change was doing X or Y, I received no response > at all. Hmm. I have this small patch which enables 64-bit support. It's rather clean and I'll try to submit it later today to get at least some improvements. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913