Re: Kernel versions

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines.

Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the  systems
we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.)

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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines.

Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the  systems
we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.)

The question was: "Is there a linuxppc-2.6 kernel tree or are they
still using the linuxppc-2.5 tree?".  "They" isn't a good definition
of what machines (or people ?) he was referring to.  I guessed he
meant the majority of ppc machines.


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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

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The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines.

Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the  systems
we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.)

Indeed.  Not all "PPC machines" are Apple MacIntosh systems, although
Macs do use the PowerPC CPU.  Too many folks simply equate the two...

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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:56, Gary Thomas wrote:

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

quoted

The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines.

Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the  systems
we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.)

Indeed.  Not all "PPC machines" are Apple MacIntosh systems, although
Macs do use the PowerPC CPU.  Too many folks simply equate the two...

Then send patches upstream. It's plain wrong to reproduce what we
had in 2.4 letting all sort of stuffs pile up in the "ppc" trees
that never get sent upstream.

I tend to think that pretty much everything including fancy board
support should be sent to lkml for comment & proposed upstream right
away.

Ben.


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On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 10:08 -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:56, Gary Thomas wrote:

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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

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The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines.

Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the  systems
we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.)

There was a fair amount of MPC5200 code merged recently. MPC8xx
apparently isn't far off working either.

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Indeed.  Not all "PPC machines" are Apple MacIntosh systems, although
Macs do use the PowerPC CPU.  Too many folks simply equate the two...

Amongst the "PPC machines" on which I have 2.6 running are mpc8265,
mpc8560 and a dual 745x machine with MV64360 chipset -- although the
latter isn't merged into Linus' tree yet.

It's not _just_ working on macs.

I tend to think that pretty much everything including fancy board
support should be sent to lkml for comment & proposed upstream right
away.

Works for me.

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