Re: [Simulavr-devel] [patch #1764] ATmega timer0 implementation specifics and sleep handling

[Paul Schlie]

Will sync back up with you tomorrow morning (my time), just heading off to
sleep now. (TED, as your copied, any thoughts/insights/advise on the patch?)


> From: Bill <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:41:29 -0500
> To: Paul Schlie <address@hidden>
> Cc: Klaus Rudolph <address@hidden>, "Theodore A. Roth"
> <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] [patch #1764] ATmega timer0 implementation
> specifics and sleep handling
> 
> Paul,
> 
> If you (or someone) are willing to roll a tarball with the patch
> successfully applied and give me some way of observing that the patch
> works, I'll update CVS with the changes.
> 
> By "some way of observing" I'm thinking a brief description that I can
> use to demonstrate to myself what is broken and then compare that to the
> demonstration showing the issue is fixed.  In an ideal world, it would
> be a script I could just run ;-)
> 
> I know this is perhaps a bit demanding, but it is not a small patch and
> it sounds like there are conflicts in it, so I would not want to break
> simulavr by trying to apply a patch I don't really understand.
> 
> If you would like to take this off-list, feel free to contact me
> directly. I might be willing to do the patch application if you are
> willing to test it and help me develop a regression test that I can add
> to CVS.
> 
> I'll post to the list if this progresses further, so that everyone will
> know of any progress.
> 
> In any event, thanks for your comments Paul. Without a "live thread",
> that is to say, without anyone working on this item, we will likely
> leave it closed.
> 
> Paul Schlie wrote:
> 
>> Please do not close (i.e. please re-open) the patch unless you know
>> it's not appropriate for simulavr; as closing it without applying it,
>> only obscures it's existence. (where I'd guess that although not active,
>> Ted would be willing to add a comment about his sense of comfort with the
>> patch being applied to the current HEAD.)
>> 
>> Given your recent frustration with fielding questions from folks trying
>> to build simularxx, which is dependant on more third-party SW being
>> installed than simulavr is; designating simulavr a dead-end may be
>> premature, as it's better than the alternative of nothing, even if
>> presently lacking of an active maintainer, as things do change.
>> 
>> Thanks for your consideration, and although know it's easy to get
>> frustrated by things on occasion, please don't make hasty unnecessary
>> decisions about the fate of simulavr until truly necessary to do so;
>> as I for at least one can state that I'm glad it's available.
>> 
>> -paul-
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> From: Klaus Rudolph <address@hidden>
>>> 
>>> Update of patch #1764 (project simulavr):
>>> 
>>>             Assigned to:                   troth => zfrdh
>>>             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed
>>> 
>>>    _______________________________________________________
>>> 
>>> Follow-up Comment #1:
>>> 
>>> Actually I will clean up bugtracking and patch data base.
>>> 
>>> This very old pacth was not applied in the past and the project is not
>>> actually maintained.
>>> 
>>> I drop this entry now. If you would maintain the last
>>> 
>>> version of simulavr you simply could send an actual patch for it. But please
>>> remember that simulavr will not be continued and no new features will come
>>> until a new maintainer for the project is found.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I myself will continue the work at simulavrxx so simulavr
>>> 
>>> is for my personal view a dead end.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Feel free to reactivate the old simulavr project if you
>>> 
>>> have a personal need for it.
>>> 
>>>    _______________________________________________________
>>> 
>>> This item URL is:
>>> 
>>>  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=1764>
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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