From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3KDlEm25347 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:47:14 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3KDlCM25344 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:47:12 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3KDjqC02104; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:45:52 -0300 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:45:52 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: Alan Cox Cc: wesolows@foobazco.org (Keith M Wesolowski), rjkm@convergence.de (Ralph Metzler), jensenq@Lineo.COM (Quinn Jensen), linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux on LSI EZ4102 Message-ID: <20010420104552.B1973@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010418132323.A25356@foobazco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:11:42PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:11:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any -ac kernel contains at most the same changes that are in the oss > > tree. Trees other than the oss one, including ac, are likely to > > contain more bugs. > > -ac has all the stuff Ralf has sent me. Linus has most of that. In some > ways -ac has less bugs (eg the oss tree has serious disk corruption bugs -ac > doesnt) but I certainly cant guarantee -ac will always build on mips, and > right now with the sem changes it quite probably wont. It won't nor will Linus latest pre-patch. Time to start sending more patches to you & Linus ... Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:45:52 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: Linux on LSI EZ4102 Message-ID: <20010420104552.B1973@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010418132323.A25356@foobazco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:11:42PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com To: Alan Cox Cc: Keith M Wesolowski , Ralph Metzler , Quinn Jensen , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20010420134552.O2d5CA5IBouwTrMAw0wpDCywC48crXJ-YJTL6pKSsXg@z> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:11:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any -ac kernel contains at most the same changes that are in the oss > > tree. Trees other than the oss one, including ac, are likely to > > contain more bugs. > > -ac has all the stuff Ralf has sent me. Linus has most of that. In some > ways -ac has less bugs (eg the oss tree has serious disk corruption bugs -ac > doesnt) but I certainly cant guarantee -ac will always build on mips, and > right now with the sem changes it quite probably wont. It won't nor will Linus latest pre-patch. Time to start sending more patches to you & Linus ... Ralf