Re: Alpha port still maintained in 2.5

Hannes Reinecke
2002-12-30T18:24:28Z

Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
>
>>Anyway, I just installed BitKeeper and start finding my way into the code...
>
>
> Maybe setting up an own repository (like the parisc, mips, m68k, etc
> people currently do using CVS) would also be a good idea, just to test out
> stuff before pushing it into the main tree and to have a common code base
> to work on.
>
> This way we could apply e.g. the module patch from kernel.org and fix the
> remaining parts.
>
I'm all for it. The important bit would be to get those who really
matter (i.e. Richard Henderson, Ivan K. et al) to cooperate with it.

Otherwise it's just a waste of time, since in doubt their patches have a
far better chance being incorporated into the main tree than ours ...

> just my 0,02 EURO
> --jochen
Same here.

Cheers,

Hannes