Re: 2.3.36-pre on SPARC

Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:17:25 -0800 (PST)


Why not let someone that needs to know about these issues in on the point,
please............

On Tue, 4 Jan 100, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> > Now while trying to compile the latest pre-patch i got a failure in
> > ide-geometry.c (Why is that compiled unconditionally into the block device
> > driver code in the first place i wonder, after all not all systems have
> > IDE interfaces/drives...). I got over that by simply copying the sparc64
> > version of hdregs.h and ide.h over to sparc and change were the compiler
> > bailed out. Now here are my questions:
>
> If you want to copy IDE headers, take them from my page
> http://corp.metabyte.com/~zaitcev/linux/, closer to the bottom.
> But the right way is to fix ide-geometry.c problem, so
> you better refrain from this copying business.
>
> --Pete
>
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Andre Hedrick
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