On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:21 AM, dann frazier <dannf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:03:07AM +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: >> Modestas Vainius wrote: >>>> Note that Debian's buildds run a UP kernel, so as soon as those fixes >>>> go upstream we can pull them in. Thanks for all your work here! >>>> >>> >>> Well, as long as this is unfixed or at least "common", I don't see how hppa >>> can be considered to be a release arch. Is that UP patch available somewhere? >> >> My case and my analysis talked about UP kernel, and John David Anglin >> made a patch: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561203#144 >> >> After that, the discussion went to SMP cases. >> >> It would be better to evaluate the patch again, and make sure it works >> for UP case and fix failures of buildd, then apply for Linux in Debian >> (only) for HPPA. >> >> I know that the patch is not that ideal because it touches >> architecture independent part of Linux, but it is worth for Linux in >> Debian (or Linux for the HPPA machine of buildd, at least). > > I'm happy to test the patch if necessary to help push this change > upstream. However, we do need the change to go upstream before we can > include it in the Debian kernel. Just for reference, I've summarized the test cases and related patches here: http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
