Messages in this thread | | | From | George France <> | Subject | Re: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:05:51 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 23 July 2002 08:42, Martin Brulisauer wrote: > On 21 Jul 2002, at 18:57, Oliver Pitzeier wrote: > > I'm also currently not sure that kernel 2.6.X will > > ever run on alpha. There are not very much alpha-users. > > And there are lesser alpha kernel maintainers. > > Ivan Kokshaysky and "Thunder from the hill" are two > > persons who often work an the Alpha Code. And me > > as well (a bit....). But it's currently not easy > > to fix the new errors (for alpha) in every kernel > > release, because they are growing...
2.6.x will run on alpha. There are still a handfull of people that still activly maintian Linux on Alpha. Since there is only a few people that activly work on Alpha, they tend to chose a kernel versions, then work with that version for a while until it is stable. In the past few months most of the efforts have been spent on 2.4.9. Currently there have been discussions in regard to:
1) porting all those patches for 2.4.9 forward to 2.4.[18-19] and 2.5.x. 2) taking a look at the latest 2.5.x in the next few weeks, as we are aware that 2.5.x does not compile on Alpha.
> > Do you think it's worth the time to patch the current > version? Will Linus apply the patch so we will hopefully > have a 2.6.x kernel that compiles (at least) on alpha's?
It is certainly worth the time. It is not too difficult to get any sane patch applied to the kernel for Alpha.
> > Is there anybody who is willing to test such a patch > on different alpha's (I only have some XLT's, an AS800 > and one AS250, so all alcor based systems with > ISA and PCI but without EISA and all are using sys_alcor.c)? > Further I can't test SMP with this _very_ old hardware.
I have access to a Lab that is filled with Alpha systems. I would be happy to test any patch as I have time.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistence.
Best Regards,
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