Re: [kbuild-devel] (no subject)

Tom Rini
2001-12-07T04:41:52Z

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:36:13PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:30:59 -0700,
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:17:53PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> >> 2.5.2-pre1 Add the kbuild 2.5 and CML2 code, still using
> >> Makefile-2.5, supporting both CML1 and CML2.
> >> i386, sparc, sparc64 can use either kbuild 2.4 or 2.5,
> >> 2.5 is recommended.
> >> ia64 can only use kbuild 2.5.
> >> Other architectures continue to use kbuild 2.4.
> >> Wait 24 hours for any major problems then -
> >
> >Could we wait longer here? Maybe 48 or 72 to give other arches time to
> >convert and attempt to sync again? Or at least show it to Keith so he
> >can try and sync it up. :)
>
> We will not get all architectures converted in 48 hours or even 72.
> kbuild 2.5 has been available for months and only i386, ia64, sparc32
> (I did all those) and sparc64 (Ben Collins) have been converted. Alpha
> is in progress. Unconverted architectures stay on 2.5.2-pre1 until
> they do the conversion, but there is no need to hold up everybody else.

I think at least part of it is a time thing. It's not official so it's
not on the urgent to do list. Once it gets in I can imagine other
people picking it up again. I know rmk mentioned he played with it, 6
months ago. Which is about when I played with PPC too. I imagine once
it gets in other people/arches will start to try too, and probably have
a few more suggestions for things that i386/ia64/sparc* haven't run
into.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)