Vger CVS R.I.P. (Was Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > > probably me getting old). Until very recently, this tree maintained a
> >                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Say 3-4 months ago.
>
> Well, I am running right now a 2.2.15-pre4 from vger, and I have a
> working 2.3.42 built from vger with ajoshi's patches applied. Both are
> less than 2 weeks old. I admit that here I don't really test the latest
> ppc developments (say USB and Pbook), because my main goal right now is
> to keep my old Pmac 6400 on board.

That's because Cort sends his patches to Linus, and after that they
automagically appear in vger as well. But there was a time Linus' tree didn't
produce a compiling/working PPC kernel at all.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert at linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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