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Re: test rig first cut (list discussion, practice etc)



On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:42:25PM -0700, Remco Treffkorn wrote:

> I MAKE more time for this than you. My day has the same 24 hours yours has.I 

my job demands mandatory overtime, there is nothing i can do about
this at this time.  sleep, and various non-computer related tasks take
up most of my free time, the rest is spent answering emails.

> decided to jump into this full blast, and learn as much as I can from you in 
> as short a time as possible. You are the obvious victim for brain picking. 
> Look at it as an investment, and hope for a good return.

yes, and i think you for your help, i just ask you please read my
replies a bit more carefully, as ive had to say the same thing over
and over.

> Eathan, I have asked questions. If some of the answers are obvious to you, 

spelling.

> I have not made any proposals yet. I have described how I think things ARE. I 

you keep making statements that the vfs/filesystem stuff will not be
in prom-libc.  im telling you it WILL.

> may very well be wrong about some aspects. That's when you start teaching...
> I need to fully understand the status quo, and I need to understand where you 
> want to go from here. If there is a yaboot2 white paper, that would be a good 
> start. As it is, you seem to be the single source of information.

your tarball wires read/write etc directly to linux syscalls, this is
WRONG, as it will bypass the vfs layer in prom-libc, not allowing it
to be tested.  linux syscalls will be __linux_open() etc.  only rawio
will call them.

> > 3) im not in a good mood at all this week, nothing to do with this
> > project or any of you, so don't take my terse attitude in a personal
> > or insulting way, nor as a indication of lack of appreciation for the
> > help, without the help it will take years for me to complete this
> > project, with help i think it could be done by next year.  but again
> > its just going to slow things down if i have to talk past you over and
> > over again, so please try a little harder to read and understand my
> > replies and then post well reasoned responses.
> >
> 
> If I just pissed you of that much in the space of a few days, just imagine 
> what I can do in a month!

as i said above my current mood has nothing to do you with you, but
some of my conversations with you have been frustrating as its seemed
like you were not listening.

> You are just lucky that I am notoriously in a good mood :-)
> 
> None of that fixes the varargs stuff, of course. Somebody with ppc assembly 
> experience could nip this one inside of twenty minutes. Any takers?

shouldn't take any asm stuff.. i don't have any of these vaargs problems..

and i have done a basic test under gcc 3.3 in debian, things worked
fine (via the LD_PRELOAD hack test).  i think your compiler is
broken.  (its -dumpmachine output certainly is).

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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