From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:33:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B65B9.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.101.185]:17310 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:33:21 +0000 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0SAXL125632 for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:33:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:33:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5] FPU Message-ID: <20030128113321.E20541@linux-mips.org> References: <20030126033529.GA4296@greglaptop.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030126033529.GA4296@greglaptop.attbi.com>; from lindahl@keyresearch.com on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM -0800 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1249 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:35:29PM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote: > One good way to start with 2.5 bugs is to compare the code to the 2.4 > kernel. Often you can see places where bugs were fixed in 2.4 but the > fixes were not also made to the equivalent 2.5 code. This will keep > 2.4 and 2.5 as close as possible, just like we want to keep the 64-bit > and 32-bit kernels as close as possible. While that is fundamentaly true in reality it's often made much harder because the 2.4 and 2.5 codebases have diverged so much and will diverge even more so. Ralf