Re: 2.6.6-mm3

Tom Rini
2004-05-17T17:56:56Z

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:38:13AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:30:25PM -0400, Robert Picco wrote:
>
> > Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:55:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6/2.6.6-mm3/
> > >>
> > >>- A few VM changes, getting things synced up better with Andrea's work.
> > >>
> > >>- A new kgdb stub, for ia64 (what happened to the grand unified kgdb
> > >> project?)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> My long term strategy is to get everyone using the version on
> sourceforge that splits out the common portions of the stub from the
> arch-specific portions. If you could go ahead and get ia64 working on
> this as well I'd appreciate it.
>
> Right now it's still vs 2.6.5, but I'm going to try and fix that today
> or tomorrow to be vs 2.6.6.

OK, I've updated things to 2.6.6.

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Tom Rini