From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: , Subject: Re: CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:50:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20020411165012.25649@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <0204111624.AA28797@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <0204111624.AA28797@ivan.Harhan.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >> Don't get to conclusions so fast. We have already a whole bunch of new >> machines support pending in _devel that has to be merged, and that will >> happen after 2.4.19. Things aren't fast on a stable kernel, but that's >> the way it should be. > >Then why won't you accept my PPCStar port into 2_4_devel? I didn't say I didn't accept it. Paulus is the one to ultimately decide about that though, but I understand if he wants to put a hold on new boards until at least _devel gets merged into 2.4 >> Not having it as a module may prevent pcmcia modems from working. > >OK, now I see the fundamental conflict of interest. Your machines and mine >can't coexist in the same kernel I guess then because mine can't work with the >serial driver as a module (because it's the system console) and yours can't >work with it compiled in because of PCMCIA. Let's have separate >CONFIG_CHRP_PMAC_PREP and CONFIG_HEC_PPCSTAR then. No, let's fix the brain-damaged serial driver ;) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/