Status of linuxppc_2.5

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 18:32, Boris Bezlaj wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:18:10AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
> > BTW, are there any gotchas, or anything
> > I should pay attention moving
> > from 2.4 -> 2.5?
>
> AFAIK, you need the new module-init-tools for loading/unloading modules.
>
> I see there is a little patch for swim3 driver. Do you have any problems
> with swim3 driver in 2.4 kernel when writing to floppy? What is the status
> in v2.5?

What patch ? I'm interested ;)

So far, swim3 in 2.5 is not up-to-date to new BIO semantics in 2.5. I've wanted
to do that for some time now but didn't find time yet.

Ben.


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