On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:06, Michael Schmitz
<schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
I???m trying now (using a cross compiler, to speed up testing).
Sorry for not doing anything for a while, the ???air has left
me??? (generally and due to lack of progress with m68k as one
can only be the only fighter for ever so long).
I can understand this, but I am very impressed by all the work you have
done
for m68k recently! Please don't give up.
I'll second this sentiment wholeheartedly. It's been good to see a fresh
face injecting a lot of life into the project.
But I was just told by a member of the Debian Kernel Team on
IRC that the patches from m68k-v2.6.38 will (probably) not be
accepted, unless they go in via Linus??? tree. How are chances
of that happening? (He says they had told that years ago al-
ready.) I???ll need at least the ARAnyM/NatFeat support and some
of the bugfixes. Otherwise I fear this keeps getting obsolete
very fast. ???
As Geert wrote, almost all patches will make it into the official kernel
tree, only m68k usually needs them a little sooner. Is there no m68k DD
left
who works on the kernel? When I was still submitting patches, there never
was a problem, but I made sure that m68k patches only got applied to the
m68k tree. Of course, the smaller the patches, the better, and Geert was
very good with sending m68k patches upstream. In case you can not get
those
small patches in, I can give it a try (when I have a properly working DSL
again, and more time, so I can also set up crest and kullervo...).
At the very least, the Debian kernel maintainers ought to take a small patch
to disable SLUB for m68k for as long as it takes to get this fix included
via upstream and possibly backporting.
Not only for m68k. The parisc people are already making more noise about it ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
            Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
             Â Â -- Linus Torvalds
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