Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20T16:26:45Z

Bob McElrath wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik [jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] wrote:
> > Tom Rini wrote:
> > > Which does boil down to having to work with trees other than Linus or
> > > Alans. Remember, the official tree is not always the up-to-date tree,
> > > or in the case of other arches, the most relevant tree.
> >
> > Yep. You could even look at Linus as simply the x86 port maintainer :)
> >
> > Except for alpha and x86, AFAIK, most people wind up going through
> > arch-specific channels to get their kernels...
>
> This may be a dumb question, but is there some place where the arch
> maintainers are listed? Where the arch-specific trees are kept? Where
> would I go to get the latest set of relevant patches for alpha?

As I noted in the e-mail to which you replied, there is no separate
alpha tree nor arch-specific channel for alpha kernels. Generally fixes
to the Alpha tree appear quickly and get merged quickly, and the tree
stays in sync quite well. Watch linux-kernel or Alan Cox's patchkit for
Alpha fixes that may be in transmit to Linus.

There are of course RedHat's alpha distro, and various mailing lists on
http://www.alphalinux.org/

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