[powerstation-owners] Problem with PCIe Expansion Card

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:48:12 +0100
Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:41:29AM -0500, Josh Boyer 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.
> 
> I have imported all versions in a git and I am waiting to publish it. As
> soon as the newest version appears on developerWorks I will publish my
> git.

Nice!

josh