kdb patchset for linux-2.6.24-rc1

Jay Lan jlan at sgi.com
Tue Nov 13 08:09:36 PST 2007


jidong xiao wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 2:38 AM, Jay Lan <jlan at sgi.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry it took so long to get KDB upgrade to 2.6.24-rc1 out.
>> The x86 merge was a big thing to KDB. I merged kdb-v4.4-2.6.23-i386-1
>> and kdb-v4.4-2.6.23-x86_64-1 into kdb-v4.4-2.6.24-rc1-x86-1.
>>
> 
> Any benefit from the merging?

Well, linux 2.6.24-rc1 merged arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 into arch/x86.
(The arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 are completely gone in 2.6.24-rc2.)
As a result, arch/{i386,x86_64}/kdb need to merge. I think it
looks cleaner to release a single KDB -x86 patch to reflect the
changes.

Thanks,
 - jay


> 
> Regards
> Jason

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