From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pangeatech.com (pxofc151-phx1.pangeatech.com [63.110.32.151]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC094831 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:04:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from [65.192.22.133] by mail.pangeatech.com (NTMail 7.00.0018/NU8172.00.e2123c13) with ESMTP id gaccjaaa for parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:59:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:03:56 -0800 From: Randolph Chung To: Markus Grabert Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] State of official Linux kernel Message-ID: <20011119120355.Q3053@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > I'm just curious what the state of the PA-RISC support of the > official linux kernel is (2.4.14 from kernel.org). 2.4.14 kernel images are now available from the Debian archive. It is also available from parisc-linux cvs. I'm not sure what's the status of merging into the main tree though. > What about gcc, gdb, glibc and binutils ? How long do you think does it > take to get the current fixes/patches into a release ? We work with folks that are "upstream" for these tools to incorporate parisc specific changes into the mainline sources. Other than gdb I believe we have very little debian/parisc specific patches. > AFAIK RedHat/Cygnus supports/maintains gcc, gdb, glibc and binutils. > Are there (usually) any problems to get the patches/fixes (of gcc, gdb, > ...) into a official release ? How good is the cooperation with the main > developers of these tools/libraries ? RedHat doesn't seem to be interested > in an Linux/PA-RISC port and debian is something like a competitor ... Without guessing about any political issues, I'd say that upstream has been very cooperative in general in accepting parisc-linux port changes. I'm not sure why you think this is/will be otherwise. randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ (----) ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^