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From: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac2
Date: 26 Aug 2002 18:23:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030379037.17690.8.camel@sonja.de.interearth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020826151526.3442@192.168.4.1>

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Am Mon, 2002-08-26 um 17.15 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

> FYI, gmac is now obsolete and is replaced by the sungem
> driver.
 
> I'll soon send a patch removing it entirely from the kernel
> source tree as there is no case where it works better than
> sungem on a given HW.

Indeed, I banged it hard on my PowerBook G4 and it works like 
a charm and even in cases where gmac had occasional problems
like on wakeup or media-changes.

What are your plans to visualise the gmac removal in the config?
At the moment it's not exactly obvious that sungem will work
in place for gmac.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-26 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-26 10:35 Alan Cox
2002-08-26 11:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-26 15:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-26 16:23   ` Daniel Egger [this message]
2002-08-26 20:06     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-26 19:06       ` Alan Cox
2002-08-26 20:37         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-26 23:01 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-09-04 17:45   ` Pete Zaitcev

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