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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2]Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
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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