Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Progress on Sapphire

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

James Simmons <jsi...@ac...>:
> 
> > > We should also patch the MAINTAINERS file, shouldn't we?
> > 
> > Yes, but how we do that exactly will depend on how we do our release
> > packaging (which is James's problem).
> 
> The best thing to do is place these patches in CVS and announce it on 
> linux-kernel so people can go test it. Have CVS with 3 top directorys for
> each release. Sapphire, emrald, and ruby.

OK.  I gather the idea is that the base version of each file in the CVS is
copied from the release we're going to ship the patch for?

Sapphire is in good shape, I think.  I've handed a Sapphire candidate
to Dominik.  I will test my copy later today, after I finish updating
console_codes(4).

> So it would look like using just vc_data and expanding it would be the
> best choose I think. Any opinons?

Not from here, I don't know that code.


BTW, have we done a public launch announcement for c.o.l.a yet?
If not, I'll write and ship one.
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