Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:20:39 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: lkml, bugme.osdl.org? |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:32:35PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Indeed - (Alpha is actually one of the few non-x86 architectures > that actually built fully for me in a recent 2.5.x - and made a passable > attempt at booting)
One of the ARM machine types which I consider being closest to being completely buildable in Linus tree was this -><- close to being buildable between 2.5.49 to 2.5.50.
In 2.5.49, it failed because we had a couple of references in ide.c to functions previously removed. In 2.5.50, the IDE DMA stuff changed and made icside.c unbuildable. I'm not going to get a chance to look at this for a while, so don't expect it to change.
Not only that, but the ARM module stuff needs changes in mm/vmalloc.c so we don't have to have a _third_ ruddy implementation of the same code. (which currently causes a link error.) mm/vmalloc.c needs to become more general - basically "allocate a region of size A alignment B between address C and address D". Oh, not to mention the inherently racy code found within mm/vmalloc.c
I'll now step off my soap box. 8)
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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