Re: status of ppc support in official 2.4.0 or Alan's 2.4.0-ac1

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:59:22AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:18:13PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote:

quoted

I'm running 2.4.0 from linuxppc_2_3 and have never used bk. rsync is rather
cool.

yes but if this tree is stabelized, and thus not being fiddeled with
(as it should be for a 2.4.0) then a unified diff or full out tarball
would be more convenient.   IMO anyway.

Well, the first problem is that it's now linuxppc_2_4 (which isn't a rename,
it's a new tree) which needs all the fixes from 2_3, and some of the twitchy
stuff left out.  So it may or may not be possible to get a good 2.4 tree for
a bit (except for 2_5) anyways.

the main thing i think is needed is a *static* finalized 2.4.0 for
powerpc people can use.  not everyone wants to recompile the kernel
every day to get/fix `the tweak of the day' of actively developed
kernels.

Unfortunatly, that can't happen until 2.4.0 is finalized and bug-free for
PPC.  2_3 may or may not still need some more SMP fixes for pmac, and power3
stuff is still being fixed.  Now that on the whole 2.4 is "stable", we can
try and bring ppc support up to snuff again.  (ie I'm rather sure more PCI
stuffs need to be pulled from the 2_5 tree, 'cuz that's a lot happier on
my machine than 2_3 was).

In short, what I think we'll need soon is what 2.4.0 needs now.  People other
than the usual gang of testers to try it out and find bugs.

--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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At 11:42 AM -0600 1/6/2001, Tom Rini wrote:
[...]

In short, what I think we'll need soon is what 2.4.0 needs now.  People other
than the usual gang of testers to try it out and find bugs.

For the record, where is an rsync/tgz for the current 'needs testing' tree?
I haven't had a bootable kernel on my 9600/200mp since 2.4.0-test11
linux-pmac-devel rsync.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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From: Tom Rini <redacted>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: status of ppc support in official 2.4.0 or Alan's 2.4.0-ac1
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:42:47 -0700

Well, the first problem is that it's now linuxppc_2_4 (which isn't a rename,
it's a new tree) which needs all the fixes from 2_3, and some of the twitchy
stuff left out.  So it may or may not be possible to get a good 2.4 tree

for

a bit (except for 2_5) anyways.

What port number is bk linuxppc_2_4?
May our user access this linuxppc_2_4?

Kaoru

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