[powerstation-owners] Problem with PCIe Expansion Card

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 25 04:41:29 MST 2008


On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:19:50 +0100
Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> wrote:
 
> > The firmware is SLOF, right?  If so, then it's under a pretty open
> > license.  The latest version on developerworks is 1.7.0-1, which claims
> > to have support for powerstation (Bimini).
> 
> The problem with that version is that the 1.7.0-3 (which is on the
> boards TerraSoft ships) has already many fixes which would need to be
> added in addition to fix the alignment exceptions.
> 
> > Perhaps patches to this version could be posted for those that are
> > adventurous enough to want to try it themselves.
> 
> >From what I heard the source for 1.7.0-4 (with all fixes) should be
> available really "soon". As soon as "soon" happens I (or anybody else)
> can build new version which can then be distributed as the next official
> version.

Maybe someone should actually import this into a SCM (I prefer git,
but whatever) and maybe try and actually use this as an upstream for
SLOF.  The code dumps, while nice, don't really foster much
collaboration.

josh


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