Re: 2.6.6-mm3

Robert Picco
2004-05-17T16:30:26Z

Tom Rini wrote:

>On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:55:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6/2.6.6-mm3/
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>>- A few VM changes, getting things synced up better with Andrea's work.
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>>- A new kgdb stub, for ia64 (what happened to the grand unified kgdb
>> project?)
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>No one asked the ia64 folks who did that work "Hey, have you looked at
>the grand unified kgdb project on kgdb.sf.net ?" would be my guess.
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>Having said that, if you're willing to go with a slightly late
>initalizing (I saw part of the early_param work get dropped again I
>think, so I'm gonna guess you don't wanna deal with that again yet) KGDB
>for i386 and PPC32, I can whip something up vs 2.6.6 in a day or so.
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>

I did the ia64 port and started with Andrew's 2.6.4-mm2 i386 sources.
I'm assuming the long term strategy is to move to a unified kgdb being
done on sourceforge? If so, I'll take a look at this.

thanks

Bob