Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:49:23 -0700 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2]Update broken web addresses in the kernel. |
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On 09/21/2010 08:31 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> Resend: This is an updated patch due to some mistakes that I had made with the original patch. >> Below you will find a patch containing updates to broken web addresses in the kernel. >> Some were easy to piece together, but some were knowhere to be found..Keep in mind this was >> just a grep for "http", not sure how many other protocol's in there are working or not.. >> Note: Thanks to Matt Turner for pointing out that the archive.org address breaks >> compiling with the "*" in it's url..(thankfully a simple fix provided by Matt "%2A" resolved this). >> Thanks to everybody giving feedback on this, and let me know if I missed something.. > > It has fallen between the cracks, sorry. > > Here's my proposal about the change we discussed before. It refers to > HP's mirror of the original archive as well as another mirror run by > volunteers that happens to include a couple of extra files missing from > the former for some reason. Hopefully either of these will stay online > for the foreseeable future. > > Rather than some Digital Unix specific details these two archives provide > original TURBOchannel documentation supplied by DEC as a part of their > 1990s' TriAdd initiative. Included are hardware- and software-level > TURBOchannel specifications suitable for use by hardware designers and > firmware and OS developers respectively, as well as a number of additional > related documents. While not strictly related, there's Access.Bus > documentation too. > > Then the linux-mips.org Wiki page documents Linux driver support (or the > lack of) for many TURBOchannel option cards -- while the page is specific > to the DECstation, the drivers are generic enough to work with any Linux > platform supporting TURBOchannel -- apart from the MIPS-based DECstation, > there are Alpha- and VAX-based TURBOchannel systems in existence we may > eventually add support for in Linux one day. I still do hope to add some > more drivers to this page sometime too. :) > > Thanks again for working on this. > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki<macro@linux-mips.org> > --- > patch-mips-2.6.36-rc4-20100921-tc-doc-0 > diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig > index 5526faa..b4759db 100644 > --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig > @@ -2192,10 +2192,14 @@ config TC > bool "TURBOchannel support" > depends on MACH_DECSTATION > help > - TurboChannel is a DEC (now Compaq (now HP)) bus for Alpha and MIPS > - processors. Documentation on writing device drivers for TurboChannel > - is available at: > - <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/computer.help/policy/DIGITAL_unix/AA-PS3HD-TET1_html/TITLE.html>. > + TURBOchannel is a DEC (now Compaq (now HP)) bus for Alpha and MIPS > + processors. TURBOchannel programming specifications are available > + at: > + <ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/alphaserver/archive/triadd/> > + and: > + <http://www.computer-refuge.org/classiccmp/ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/TriAdd/> > + Linux driver support status is documented at: > + <http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/DECstation> > > #config ACCESSBUS > # bool "Access.Bus support" >
cool thanks for this.. I'll add the change..
Justin P. Mattock
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