[parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[Matthew Wilcox]

how do people feel about merging 2.4.7 into our HEAD?  it seems to have
some interesting bugs fixed, and it might make merging with Alan easier.

Or shall we let some more of the dust settle from the 2.4.6 merge before
doing this?  AIUI, J200 (and similar class) machines are currently not
working, and there are issues with keyboards.  Anything else?

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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[Randolph Chung]

> how do people feel about merging 2.4.7 into our HEAD?  it seems to have
> some interesting bugs fixed, and it might make merging with Alan easier.
> 
> Or shall we let some more of the dust settle from the 2.4.6 merge before
> doing this?  AIUI, J200 (and similar class) machines are currently not
> working, and there are issues with keyboards.  Anything else?

I've seen some weird failures after upgrading to 2.4.6:

1. ssh'ing into the box fails randomly with SIGPIPE. scp almost always
fails

2. ldd on any dynamically linked binary gives ld.so assertion errors

I haven't investigated this a whole lot, and it certainly doesn't seem
to affect everyone... 

randolph
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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[Grant Grundler]

Randolph Chung wrote:
> > how do people feel about merging 2.4.7 into our HEAD?  it seems to have
> > some interesting bugs fixed, and it might make merging with Alan easier.
...
> I've seen some weird failures after upgrading to 2.4.6:


Oh! I forgot to mention the the problem with GR03 getting
trashed when attempting to use pppd. I had posted earlier:
  http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-July/013176.html

grant

Grant Grundler
parisc-linux {PCI|IOMMU|SMP} hacker
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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[Alan Cox]

I'd wait a bit on the 2.4.7 front, judging by the number of completion change
bugs left in the tree. Maybe merge 2.4.7 after a few patches pop out 8)

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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.7

[Grant Grundler]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> how do people feel about merging 2.4.7 into our HEAD?  it seems to have
> some interesting bugs fixed, and it might make merging with Alan easier.

For me, merging with Alan is more important than the bug fixes.
I think we should track the releases as closely as we can until
Alan/Linus can build a usable parisc kernel from their tree.

BTW, I looked in 2.4.7 already and it doesn't have the changes
whic Ivan K and I worked out. I guess .7 got released before Ivan
had the other arches done (besides alhpa/parisc).

On a related note, I'd like to get ESIEE's 0.92 ISOs available
on parisc-linux.org website. mkhppa1.esiee.fr website been blocked by
their local admin or something. I was going to add a link on
parisc-linux but won't until I can reach it.

grant

Grant Grundler
parisc-linux {PCI|IOMMU|SMP} hacker
+1.408.447.7253