On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:51:43PM -0800, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> Please make sure to send in a patch, resend it, resend it ...,
> till it gets accepted. All the work we are doing outside
> arch/* and include/asm-mips64/* has very limited benefit if
> we do not push it into the main tree.
>
> Leo, I know you were going to do this anyway :-) Just taking
> the opportunity to remind everyone else ...
I should not that I'm a bit reluctant to push changes of which I neither
know the status in detail nor know that I can blindly the version on oss
to be the Only True One (TM) to their upstream maintainers.
> Ralf, you mentioned about a 100K patch difference between
> oss and pre3, I am hoping most of this is in the arch specific
> stuff?
Well, this was in the assumption that Linus takes my recent patch. He
didn't, so our diff against stock kernel are now more like 400kb most of
which are mips / mips64 architecture stuff and related drivers. As you
say I'll keep resending ...
> We probably need to look at the generic diffs, and push
> as much of the mips64 related stuff into 2.3. When 2.4 comes
> out, we should be able to take that source, the arch/mips64
> and include/asm-mips64 from oss, and be able to create a kernel
> that will work well.
Getting the diff down to zero is possible but it will take some more
work.
Ralf
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