Merge 8xx to Linus tree?

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Fri Oct 29 22:27:02 EST 2004


> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> >>On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:53:49PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Is it not time to merge 8xx from linuxppc-2.5 into Linus tree?
> >>>
> >>>I know the 8xx is not fully functional yet but this isn't done
> >>>soon I think it won't happen at all. The 8xx arch can be made to 
> >>>depend on BROKEN in Linus tree to make it clear that it isn't
> >>>working properly yet.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I've been the hard-ass about holding back on moving 8xx forward.  Once
> >>2.6.9 finally comes out (assuming and hoping that Linus really intends
> >>to do a release and not -rc5), I'll start moving stuff over and make it
> >>depend on BROKEN hopefully in time for 2.6.10-rc1.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Tom Rini
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Any progress?
> >
> > Jocke
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> >
> >  
> >
> I'm currently battling to make 2.6.10-rc1 work the same way it used do.
> 
> But something changed in slab management and the kmallocs in request_irq
> called by init_IRQ fails.

hmm, I think I saw something about that in the www log for Linus kernel. It is offline so
I can't check now.

The www I/F for both Linus tree(http://linux.bitkeeper.com/) and the ppc tree(http://ppc.bitkeeper.com/)
are offline alot. Anyone who knows whats going on?

 Jocke



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