On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:53 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:50 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
A question; Before I open BZ... Is the kernel team (I see Dave Jones is doin' much; that's why CC:) willing to help AlphaCore and add patches to kernel spec?
No, it's nothing for upstream. Just fixes for the spec. Some if(n)arch's, sections for alpha, a config, ... Nothing that should break primary archs...
We don't like ifarches. Why?
The utrace patch is the biggest concern here, really. Not that it's bad code, but its a significant divergence from upstream, and it doesn't work on sparc32 (and presumably, alpha). Aurora is %ifarch conditionalizing that patch (and one later patch that has to be modified slightly for the old ptrace behavior) in our kernels as well.
Does it apply? Seems there's a config option for it... you could just leave that disabled in your .configs.
josh