Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:54:35 -0600 | From | Cort Dougan <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2 |
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} On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:53:41PM +0200, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote: } > } > } > >> Linus, } > > } > >> Where do architecture maintainers stand when they don't submit their } > >> problems to linux-kernel or the great Ted Bug List(tm)? } > > } > >Up against the wall so we can shoot them? } > > } > >:) } > } > So I am one of the guys who will be shot ... I wanted to do an update for } > the s/390 architecture since weeks but there was always something more } > important. I finally cut some hours out of my ribs and made a patch against } > linux-2.4.0-test8. The diff for files in arch/s390, include/asm-s390 and } > drivers/s390 is pretty big, about 1 MB. The diffs for non s/390 files is } > smaller, only 35 KB. } > The question is now do you want to have the patch or do we wait until 2.4.1 } > ? } } Well, I'm not Linus (thank $DEITY for that; in that case, Linux would've } been an operating-system for the C=64...), but imho it would be cool if } we for once managed to release a v2.4.0 which actually managed to build } at least for some configurations on each platform. Oh, and I do firmly } believe that the S390 would be pretty non-critical to change, as it's } a new platform anyway, and the userbase is probably not that large yet } (hopefully it will become!) } } As for me, I'm content as long as MCA-support and MPC7400 support works } properly for respectively x86 and PPC...
The problem for getting a stable 2.4.0 out is not with the architectures, they've been stable mostly. I'm fighting a tidal wave of changes from the PPC guys that I can't let into 2.4 or 2.2 since they're both supposed to be stable. We have to endure VM rewrites but the architecture-specific code has been pretty stable. If we could get a damned 2.4 our then we could also have a 2.5 and there would be some place for these experimental changes to go instead of the two stable trees.
I've had to create a 2.5 for the PPC tree so we aren't stuck with either no experimentation or experimentation in the stable trees. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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