From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199907281336.PAA20067@denx.muc.de> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org cc: jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: Motorola Web Site Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:54:03 +0200." Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:36:13 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message you write: > > While it is nce to have motorola *effectively* supporting linux Yes - thanks, Motorola! > may I make the follwoing comments : > > 1) The form you need to fill to access patches is quite > painfull and if the purpose is only to notify users of > patch changes, then email would be sufficient... Agreed. I do not like at all being forced to supply such information if I want or not. Please remove this! You may add a link where anybody who *wants* notifications of changed *may* register, but please do not try to force us! An additional disadvantage of the current interface is that it disallows for automatic downloads using wget or similar tools. > 2) The patch for 2.2.10 is 1.5 MB. It could have been > compressed!!! ;-) 3) Is Motorola going to extend it's Linux support to the embedded controllers (MPC8xx, MPX82xx) ? 4) Running a diff against the original 2.2.10 distribution results in *all* files being different; why were all the $Id$ strings changed? For instance - I guess there were not so many changes for the Alpha prom code: -> diff linux-2.2.10/arch/mips/sgi/prom/misc.c linux_mot/arch/mips/sgi/prom/misc.c 1c1 < /* $Id: misc.c,v 1.6 1998/07/08 15:59:13 ralf Exp $ --- > /* $Id: misc.c,v 1.3 1998/11/10 02:14:56 jpeters Exp $ This makes it basicly impossible to find out what *really* was changed. Wolfgang -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: -88 Home: -86 Email: wd@denx.muc.de "Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing." - Robert Orben [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]