Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Progress on Sapphire

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > 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?

The idea is to keep seperate the emarld, sapphire and ruby branch. People
don't want to download our work for 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.X. This saved on
the download.  
 
> 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).

Cool. Now that CVS is ready we can place it in there.

> > 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.

Hum I will talk to linus about this. I don't want to do something that
linus doesn't like.
 
> BTW, have we done a public launch announcement for c.o.l.a yet?
> If not, I'll write and ship one.

Not really. I announced it on lkml but that was it. 

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