ppc64 submission

ppc64 submission

[Tom Gall]

Greetings,

  Located on kernel.org in pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall/ you will find 
linuxppc64-2.4.8-1.patch.gz. Please consider this for inclusion into the linux
kernel sources. It applies against 2.4.8 as the name suggests. 

  Included in this patch :
  
  - create and populate arch/ppc64
  - create and populate include/asm-ppc64
  - 1 bug fix to drivers/macintosh/nvram.c (change long declaration to loff_t)
  - 1 fix to drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c 
      the driver was dma'ing into the stack, the fix changes that to properly
kmalloc

  Future bug fixes, additional patches etc I'll keep in
pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall on kernel.org.

  Information about the ppc64 kernel can be found at linuxppc64.org

  Any questions by all means please hollar!

  Regards,

  Tom
-- 
Tom Gall - PPC64 Maintainer      "Where's the ka-boom? There was
Linux Technology Center           supposed to be an earth
(w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com         shattering ka-boom!"
(w) 507-253-4558                 -- Marvin Martian
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http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc

Re: ppc64 submission

[Steven Cole]

On Monday 13 August 2001 09:44, Tom Gall wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>   Located on kernel.org in pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall/ you will find
> linuxppc64-2.4.8-1.patch.gz. Please consider this for inclusion into the
> linux kernel sources. It applies against 2.4.8 as the name suggests.
>
[snipped]
>   Any questions by all means please hollar!

Just one comment. I looked at this, and the following config options are
added, but don't have Configure.help entries, so this is a "heads-up" that
help texts for the following may eventually be needed.

CONFIG_ISTAR
CONFIG_KDB
CONFIG_KDB_OFF
CONFIG_MOTOROLA_HOTSWAP
CONFIG_MSCHUNKS
CONFIG_PPCDBG
CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES

Thanks in advance,
Steven

Re: ppc64 submission

[Tom Gall]

Steven Cole wrote:
> 
> Just one comment. I looked at this, and the following config options are
> added, but don't have Configure.help entries, so this is a "heads-up" that
> help texts for the following may eventually be needed.
> 
> CONFIG_ISTAR
> CONFIG_KDB
> CONFIG_KDB_OFF
> CONFIG_MOTOROLA_HOTSWAP
> CONFIG_MSCHUNKS
> CONFIG_PPCDBG
> CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Steven

Hi Steve,

  Thanks much for the catch. I knew there were a few we needed to get added.
I'll post a patch for these in the next day or so.

  Regards,

  Tom
  
-- 
Tom Gall - PPC64 Maintainer      "Where's the ka-boom? There was
Linux Technology Center           supposed to be an earth
(w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com         shattering ka-boom!"
(w) 507-253-4558                 -- Marvin Martian
(h) tgall@rochcivictheatre.org
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc