CVS linux Vs. -test10

Matthew Wilcox matthew@wil.cx
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:38:57 +0000


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:11:29AM -0700, John Marvin wrote:
> Are we suggesting that we populate include/asm-parisc* and arch/parisc*
> WITHOUT the machine independent changes in the rest of the tree?

Yes.

> If that is the case, I guess I don't object, although I would want
> to make sure that Linus knew the state of the code, and that it would
> not work without a patch containing changes to the machine independent
> part, and that followup patches to these branches are likely to be
> huge. We should also add a README in arch/parisc that explains the
> above (and where to get patches, how to access CVS, etc.). We also
> need someone to set up an automatic nightly? patch generator.

Agreed.  The patch generation is not a big deal to arrange.

> I certainly don't want to try to get the machine independent changes in
> yet, since we still have some major issues to fix/clean there, and I doubt
> Linus would want them at this time anyway.

Certainly none of the stack direction changes.  Some of the MI stuff is
arguably stuff we could put in.

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