marcello kernel &ppc64

Marcus Meissner meissner at suse.de
Fri Nov 14 08:18:17 EST 2003


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:10:02PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 14:38 US/Central, linas at austin.ibm.com wrote:
>
> >Nothing critical per se, its just that diff -r
> >marcello-2.4.23pre9/arch/ppc64/kernel sles8/arch/ppc64/kernel shows a
> >vast number of differences. I would be much happier if these two dirs
> >were nearly identical.
>
> Forget SLES8; they're always going to apply hundreds of patches and
> that's their business (take it up with them).
>
> What's more interesting is the diff between Marcello and Ameslab 2.4.
> But that's something that tree maintainers are always working on, so
> ... they already think it would be nice if there were no differences. :)

sles8/arch/ppc64/* is taken mostly verbatim from IBM trees, mostly Ameslab.

The number of actual SuSE patches applied there is pretty low.

But push Ameslab first please.

Ciao, Marcus

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