From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:50:03 -0600 From: Grant Grundler To: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] parisc-linux.org kernel Message-ID: <20030410055003.GB21872@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030409054929.GB21306@dsl2.external.hp.com> <3E947323.14900.19F1E3AF@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3E947323.14900.19F1E3AF@localhost> 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: On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:23:15PM +0200, pageexec@freemail.hu wrote: > > > To willy's credit, he's attempted to merge 2.4 parisc changes upstream > > > at least twice but was torpedo'd both times. > > > > i don`t want to know ;-) > > actually, i'd like to (feel free to answer off-list), Once the 2.4.20-preX bk tree that willy was using as "parent" was discarded by marcelo because of other bugs in patches. Or marcelo wouldn't accept the patch because he had a -pre candidate and didn't want to risk that. Just stuff like that. > since for all the > other archs grsec/PaX runs on we could compile a working kernel from the > vanilla tree - it just seems a mystery why parisc is an exception (not > blaming anyone, just would like to see it more clear). As willy noted, parisc is not an exception. last time willy looked at merging, the 2.4 diff was something like 2 or 3MB. I'd hope it's a bit smaller since Alan Cox merge a bunch of stuff into his tree. But I haven't looked if/when Marcelo picked any of that up. For comparison, last I heard, the 2.5 diff is something like < 100KB. grant