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Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 09:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> If people are patching kernel sources for the Blizzard driver anyway, it
>> would be only a little bit of extra work to just apply the fix at
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/141. Or disable CONFIG_FUTEX.
>
> Oh! I need to set up a cross-build environment for m68k so I can
> build my own kernel for merlin with this patch included.
>
> Glad that the problem is known and addressed. Any idea whether
> the patch will be merged? Seems to touch more generic code
> and I could imagine Linus getting annoying with people trying to
> fix code for old machines which could also affect current machines.

It's in -next, but it's pending, as it breaks s390.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds


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