Bugzilla Bug 133342

Without the patch in the URL, BBC refuses to load on sparc64 IIIcu systems
stating that the device is not found (reasons for that behavior, and patch make
complete sense).
[ http://mailgate.supereva.com/linux/linux.debian.ports.sparc/msg15214.html ]


emerge --info:

Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6,
glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=ultrasparc3 -mcpu=ultrasparc3 -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=ultrasparc3 -mcpu=ultrasparc3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc X apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups
curl dba dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd ethereal exif expat
fam fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idn imagemagick imlib jpeg lcms libwww mad mikmod
mng motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl
png python readline reflection sdl session slang smp spell spl ssl tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Thanks chance, next time try to inline the patch.
The bbc_i2c is far from working right but at least this patch makes it work
somehow on IIIcu processors. It needs to be rewritten to use the i2c framework.
Kernel team: Apply to g-s.

Created an attachment (id=86855) [details]
bbc_i2c patch to recognize IIIcu processors

What is bbc? Is this patch headed upstream?

Yes, it's upstream, just look at the diff :)
Basically it's UltraSPARC-III thermal/fan control for some machines to make
them less noisy when they're not so hot.

Fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r8 (genpatches-2.6.16-10)