linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 08:30:38 -0400
From:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
To:	Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's

Ben Collins wrote:
> This work around has been in use by almost any distribution trying to
> support sparc64 since at least 2002. Without it, sunhme hangs fairly
> quickly on UltraSPARC 1's.
> 
> Dave, I know it's not in the kernel because it isn't a "fix", but given
> that we haven't seen a fix in more than 5 years, can we get this out of my
> tree please? :)

Are you sure it is still needed? Gentoo dropped this a few months ago 
and have no regression reports.

http://www.mail-archive.com/sparclinux@vger.kernel.org/msg00418.html

Daniel

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