Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-05-13T19:39:05Z

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:57:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > SH3/SH3-64 need resynching, as do some other ports. No impact on
> > mainstream platforms hopefully
>
> That brings up another issue: what ports do regularly work with 2.5
> mainline? I've been working with David to get all those core changes ia64
> needs (and there's still a lot) sorted out so maybe 2.6 will work out of
> the box. I guess some other arches (parisc, mips?) will need similar
> work.

Just FYI... For the m68k port, I have ca. 150 KiB of patches in Linus' INBOX
(if they're still there, mainly irqreturn_t stuff), and about 100 KiB of
postponed stuff I'm not gonna send (i.e. things that are not ready for
submission yet, or that are too controversial).

Amiga (non-SCSI) and Q40/Q60 should work fairly well in 2.5.x, except that
early userspace (launching of /sbin/init) got broken in 2.5.67 or 2.5.68.

For comparison, 2.4.x has no stuff in Marcelo's INBOX, and about the same 100
KiB of postponed stuff. Not counting Michael Müller's new TekXpress port, which
is not even in Linux/m68k CVS (http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/) yet.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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