From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Kernel versions From: David Woodhouse To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Gary Thomas , Wolfgang Denk , Giuliano Pochini , linuxppc , Linux PPC Dev In-Reply-To: <1089126527.1897.69.camel@gaston> References: <20040702145433.5BA0EC109F@atlas.denx.de> <1088783785.6277.346.camel@hermes> <1089126527.1897.69.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092416380.14552.36.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:59:41 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 10:08 -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:56, Gary Thomas wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:54, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > In message you wrote: > > > > > > > > The official 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on ppc machines. > > > > > > Please define "ppc machines". It doesn't work on most of the systems > > > we have in the lab (like MPC8xx or MPC5200 etc.) There was a fair amount of MPC5200 code merged recently. MPC8xx apparently isn't far off working either. > > Indeed. Not all "PPC machines" are Apple MacIntosh systems, although > > Macs do use the PowerPC CPU. Too many folks simply equate the two... Amongst the "PPC machines" on which I have 2.6 running are mpc8265, mpc8560 and a dual 745x machine with MV64360 chipset -- although the latter isn't merged into Linus' tree yet. It's not _just_ working on macs. > I tend to think that pretty much everything including fancy board > support should be sent to lkml for comment & proposed upstream right > away. Works for me. -- dwmw2 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/