please pull powerpc-merge.git

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 12 08:45:28 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > 
> > When do you think you will close the merge window?  The glibc guys
> > want us to set AT_PLATFORM to something useful on powerpc, so I'd like
> > to get that in.  I have a patch to do that, but it will take a couple
> > of days to get consensus that we have the right set of strings
> > exported.
> 
> My plan is around this Sunday. I can't leave it much later, simply because 
> on Friday I'm flying off to NZ, and I want to leave the window open for an 
> -rc2 if needed.
> 
> That's also the two weeks after 2.6.15, so it's the right date.

That should leave me enough time to move prep over and finally remove
pmac/chrp/prep from arch=ppc since they are just a non building burden
at this point.

The consolidation of the init code path between 32 and 64 bits will
probably not make it in time though.

Ben.





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