madwifi-source-0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch1 doesn't build on sparc

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:48:47 Reto Gantenbein wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just tried to install my atheros-based card on a sun blade 100  
> running debian lenny. Unfortunately I couldn't success to compile the  
> ath_pci module. The attachment contains the compile output. On the  
> debian bug page I couldn't find any mention of this, so I wanted to  
> ask if this is already known to you and if there is any workaround?
> If the mention of this (http://madwifi.org/wiki/Architecture#Sparc64)  
> is the problem, it should also be mentioned for debian users i propose.

After reading the wiki page notes about register conflict on sparc64, I do
think it is a blocking problem for sparc64 users.

It is probably not worth putting a warning in the etch package at this time,
but maybe the other developers think it is.

The compile failure could probably be fixed easily (or ignored by removing
-Werror compile flags from build system) but the resulting modules be useless
due to the documented register problem.

It would have bee nice to catch this before etch, but it wasn't to be. The
madwifi HAL will most likely never be fixed for Linux.

Thanks, Kel.