Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Announce: kdb v2.0 is available for kernel 2.4.17

David Mosberger
2002-01-10T21:33:16Z

>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:09:14 +1100, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:

Keith> David, can you send these ia64 patches to Marcelo for
Keith> inclusion in base kernel? If you are too busy I will package
Keith> them up and send them.

That would be fine with me. But could you send me the patch for a
final sanity check before sending it off to Marcelo?

Also, do not send it the linux/mm.h changes. Due to the multiple
memory attribute issue, I'm not sure the VM_NONCACHED and
VM_WRITECOMBINED are such good ideas (besides, I don't think they're
really needed anymore).

Keith> Documentation/Configure.help
Keith> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt init/main.c Makefile
Keith> (second chunk only, adding AFLAGS_KERNEL) include/linux/mm.h
Keith> (just to reserve the bits) include/linux/prctl.h (reserve the
Keith> bits) include/linux/time.h kernel/ksyms.c kernel/signal.c
Keith> kernel/sys.c

Keith> The list above excludes anything that might affect other
Keith> architectures. The patch to ensure that the console
Keith> variables are contiguous is already in 2.4.18-pre1.

Keith> I would like to get crc32 in base as well but I believe that
Keith> another person has been working on this as well. If you like
Keith> I will reconcile the two versions and get one crc32 into base
Keith> kernel.

Matt was working on this. Is that who you were referring two? Yes,
there is no reason this patch shouldn't be in 2.4.xx as far as I'm
concerned.

Thanks,

--david