From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Status of linuxppc_2.5 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: mlan@cpu.lu Cc: panto@intracom.gr, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1042062383.637.1.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 08 Jan 2003 22:46:24 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 23:15, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 8 Jan, this message from Pantelis Antoniou echoed through cyberspace: > > I'm trying to compile linuxppc_2.5 > > and the following patch is needed to > > make it compile. > > Tried to compile my standard kernel compile a while back, and found the > following things broken (didn't have time to try fixing yet...): > > - 53c94 Mac SCSI > - Matroxfb > > I also didn't try very hard to compile in face of these problems; there > may be others still. > > Sorry I can't provide more info, but maybe this discussion makes ore > people interested in 2.5 status, where I think a number of PPC-related > things need to be seriously looked at, hopefully before it is declared > 2.6... Yup, mostly drivers though. Part of this is me lacking time or beeing too lazy (pick your preferred one) as I want to rework most of the pmac drivers to better fit in the new model. Some of it is in progress locally though, hopefully I'll push something a couple of weeks from now. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/