[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] VIO on sparc / udev support

[Michael Biebl]

Hi SPARC porters, hi Jurij!

Since my last attempt to contact Jurij wasn't successful and I'm
actually not sure, if Jurij is still active (as a SPARC porter), I'm
reposting the full email, hoping to gather some feedback from the Debian
SPARC porters.

Regards,
Michael


Am 29.03.2013 22:16, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Hi Jurij,
> 
> afaics you are one of the SPARC porters and the original bug submitter
> of [1].
> As you are probably aware, the udev sources have been merged into the
> systemd source tree. This also affects the Debian udev package which
> will be built from the systemd source package in the future.
> While preparing a new release and importing bits from the old udev
> package I stumbled upon vio_type and it's accompanying udev rules and
> was wondering what to do about that.
> 
> Since no-one in the systemd/udev team is using SPARC hardware, I was
> wondering, if vio_type would have a better home in e.g. the sparc-utils
> [2] package, where it would be maintained and tested by people with
> knowledge of that architecture.
> Seeing a bug report like [3], it's not actually clear to me, if vio_type
> is still functional with newer kernel releases and for which type of
> hardware this is actually required. I poked Marco about this, but he
> doesn't remember the details anymore.
> 
> Specifically, this would mean moving the /lib/udev/vio_type helper
> binary and the VIO bits from /lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules into
> sparc-utils proper.
> 
> Jurij, what do you think about the idea in general? Do you also think
> this would make sense or do you see problems with this proposal?
> If you are open to the idea, we could discuss and work on the technical
> details.
> 
> (Please CC the pkg-systemd-maintainers m-l on your reply)
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526621
> [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sparc-utils.html
> [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678264#96
> 
> 


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