Re: status of the 2.4 apus patches ?

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:40:52PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:28:48PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > I thought that Jesper was tracking bitkeeper back in 98 or so, but i may
> > be wrong, or this was reverted when we moved to sourceforge.
> >
> > Actually, it is easier that way, as i tend to miss things with bk, as
> > you well know.
> >
> > Will the current CVS head just do, or should i look for a 2.4.24 tag ?
> 
> I don't think there's a tag, just check out the head and try.

Well, i cannot really try, as i don't have apus hardware anymore. But i
would like the patches to be integrated in the debian -powerpc kernel
package, which would then also build the -apus kernels. This would make
it easier to maintain, i think.

Friendly,

Sven Luther