[linuxsh-dev] HEAD 2.5 Updates

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

Just to let everyone know (especially those not on linuxsh-cvs), I've
merged the linux-2_5-restructure-saturn branch into HEAD. This includes
pretty much the entire bulk of the 2.5 restructuring effort as well as
lots of other new and fun things, and also brings us in sync with
2.5.68.

The side effect of this is that a few ports will need some updating, and
some processor specific stuff still needs to be cleaned up to work (sh2,
sh3, and st40, as an example).

The large chunks of the merge have been tagged accordingly in the same
fashion the last restructure merge was done in. As such, the state of
HEAD _prior_ to the merge is tagged as

	linux-2_5-restructure-saturn-premerge

and after the merge (such as it is now), the tag is

	linux-2_5-restructure-saturn-postmerge

Also, ChangeLogs have been keept relatively up-to-date with some of the
events that transpired in the restructure branches, with quite a bit
occuring in ChangeLog-2002.

For history, there are a few branches that were started and are either
being killed off or are already dead.

	linux-2_5-restructure	(restructuring started here)
	linux-2_5-restructure-smp	(SMP started (for SH7604))
	linux-2_5-restructure-saturn	(MMUless port started)

The SMP and Saturn branches were forked off of the restructure branch
(obviously). The SMP branch was short lived, and was integrated and
consumed by the saturn branch once the basics were out of the way. The
restructure branch also ceased to have much development done on it once
things were more or less constantly being merged into the saturn branch.
(I started to merge back into restructure, but grew tired of CVS's
inability to even pretend to merge branches effeciently).

I haven't been tagging independant 2.5.x merges into the saturn branch,
so there's no immediate tag for 2.5.44 - 2.5.68, though if there's
enough interest in this, I can go back and create tags by timestamp off
of the AGAINST-2.5.xx files.

At the moment there's not a whole lot of other documentation outlining
changes, though the new-machine document will likely be updated in the
near future to outline most of the backend changes.