Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Announce: kdb v1.9 is available for kernel 2.4.16 | From | Juan Quintela <> | Date | 03 Dec 2001 15:38:50 +0100 |
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>>>>> "keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com> writes:
keith> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:43:10 +0100, keith> Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:11:31PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >>> This will probably be the last release of kdb using this patch format. >>> I plan to split kdb into a core patch and smaller arch dependent >>> patches, instead of one big patch for each arch. >> >> Why can't you release one kdb patch instead?
keith> Because every architecture except i386 differes from the base kernel. keith> IA64 has its own large patch set that has to be applied to the main keith> kernel before kdb can be applied. Sparc uses the vger kernel tree. keith> The -ac trees are different again.
That is bad, now that you are able to create a kernel that will compile in i386 & ia64 with latest ia64 patch, I will also like to be able to integrate kdb there with support for both archs.
Later, Juan.
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