Re: status of the 2.4 apus patches ?

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:59:46PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > Sven Luther wrote:
> > >I was wondering if it would make sense to also include the needed apus
> > >patches, and build all powerpc kernels from the same patch.
> > >
> > >I have no more working apus machine though, and i can't really test
> > >this, but i would like to hear the opinion of the apus developers on
> > >this. Do you believe this is possible, or are there too many differences
> > >and incompatibility between the apus patches and the normal ones ?
> >
> > It should be possible, all incompatible changes are protected via ifdef,
> > so I don't really see a problem. It might be worth to look at some of
> > the drivers and exclude some of it, so you can keep the differences smaller.
>
> Is there a bk repository of the apus tree, and if so, was a proper
> 2.4.24 tag made ? Also, if it exists, is the apus bk repository still
> tracking the old linuxppc_2_4 one, or did it already move to the
> linuxppc-2.4 one ?

It's CVS only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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