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

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:54:00PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:16:24PM +0000, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> > > (for those of us who still haven't had time to tangle with bk ;-)
> > >
> > > and can I expect it to build?
> > > what state does it represent?
> > > (i.e. is it a continuation of the same tree - or a rebuild from the 2.4.0
> > > final)
> >
> > The 2_4 tree is building.  If it's not building, report it here.
> > It represents what will someday get to Linus.  Hopefully sooner rather than
> > later.  It's a new tree which is the old tree.  Cort made a new one, called
> > 2_4 and I put all of our changes from 2_3 back in.  It's based off of 2.4.0
> > final.
> >
> > > is there any point trying kernel.org 2.4.0 final? (or ac3 - which I pulled
> > > last night)
>
> It may help to create nightly diffs between Linus' 2.4.0 and linuxppc_2_4 and
> put them on some FTP site. People still more like patches than bk :-)

Doesn't sound like a bad idea. :)

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