From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E1D2F34.20908@intracom.gr> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:13:40 +0200 From: Pantelis Antoniou MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Boris Bezlaj , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Status of linuxppc_2.5 References: <3E1BECD2.9060909@intracom.gr> <20030108173215.GA1002@bandit.kista.gajba.net> <1042049915.787.9.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1042049915.787.9.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 18:32, Boris Bezlaj wrote: > > >>On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:18:10AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> >> >> >>>BTW, are there any gotchas, or anything >>>I should pay attention moving >>>from 2.4 -> 2.5? >>> >>> >>AFAIK, you need the new module-init-tools for loading/unloading modules. >> >>I see there is a little patch for swim3 driver. Do you have any problems >>with swim3 driver in 2.4 kernel when writing to floppy? What is the status >>in v2.5? >> > >What patch ? I'm interested ;) > >So far, swim3 in 2.5 is not up-to-date to new BIO semantics in 2.5. I've wanted >to do that for some time now but didn't find time yet. > >Ben. > > > > > I'm sorry, the patch is just trivial stuff needed to get it to compile. I don't even have hardware that applies to swim3 driver. I just added the include for the header and modified the call to ide_unregister to use the new calling convention. BTW ide_unregister was not exported in linux/ide.h and so I added the prototype there. Maybe someone should notify the maintainer of the IDE layer that since this function is needed by the swim3 driver it should be visible in the header? Or we should use a new infrastructure? As I mentioned since I don't have a power mac testing system, I'm not willing to sacrifice my workstation to the gods of 2.5 just yet. What I want to do is to use 2.5 for my board which uses a 8xx, and there I'm up against greater problems... My major obstacle is the 8xx uart driver. I'm not up to speed on 2.5 yet, but what happened to DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE? Apparently alot of things changed significantly. Is there any document or whatever to help me clean up the confusion? Finally, if I am permitted to say, it appears that we are a little behind in the 2.5 train. The release date is getting closer, and I'm not sure that there are any people using 2.5 in PPC systems. IMHO we should pick up the pace a little bit. Regards Pantelis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/