From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Kernel versions From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Gary Thomas Cc: Wolfgang Denk , Giuliano Pochini , linuxppc , Linux PPC Dev In-Reply-To: <1088783785.6277.346.camel@hermes> References: <20040702145433.5BA0EC109F@atlas.denx.de> <1088783785.6277.346.camel@hermes> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089126527.1897.69.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:08:47 -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:56, Gary Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > In message you wrote: > > > > > > The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines. > > > > Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the systems > > we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.) > > Indeed. Not all "PPC machines" are Apple MacIntosh systems, although > Macs do use the PowerPC CPU. Too many folks simply equate the two... Then send patches upstream. It's plain wrong to reproduce what we had in 2.4 letting all sort of stuffs pile up in the "ppc" trees that never get sent upstream. I tend to think that pretty much everything including fancy board support should be sent to lkml for comment & proposed upstream right away. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/