Kernel versions

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 10:08 -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:56, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407021623360.22661 at denise.shiny.it> 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.)

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

> > 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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dwmw2


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