Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: No love for the PPC | Date | Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:52:16 -0400 (EDT) |
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Mike Borrelli writes:
> I'm sorry about the tone of this e-mail, but it is somewhat painful when, > after downloading a new kernel to play with, it doesn't compile on the > ppc. It isn't even big problems either. A single line (#include > <linux/pm.h>) is missing from pc_keyb.c and has been for at least three > -ac releases. Now, process.c in arch/ppc/kernel/ dies from an undeclared > identifier (init_mmap). ... > Anyway, the real question is, why does the ppc arhitecture /always/ break > between versions?
At the most recent Ottata Linux Symposium, there was a PowerPC session with about 20 people. Somebody did a poll, asking what people used. I was the only person who dared to use a kernel from Linus. Everone else was using the BenH and BitKeeper ones.
This is a sorry state of affairs. If people are off using kernels from other places, there isn't a great incentive to keep the official Linus kernel updated. Nobody uses it anyway.
Elimination of these non-Linus PowerPC trees would be great. (at least the "stable" ones should go, as they lure people away from the one true source tree)
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