Re: ia64 added to svn
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:40:34AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:20:22PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:24:24AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> >
> > [split]
> >
> > > > Another issue I would like to see addressed at some stage,
> > > > though it isn't really a policy issue, is what port/kernel version
> > > > we support. By kernel version I mean 2.4 and 2.6. For instance
> > > > the recent discussion of Bug#257001 suggets that m68k may be
> > > > a candidate for not having a 2.4 kernel that is supported by this team
> > >
> > > Well, do they have a 2.6 kernel then ? I suppose not, and that means only a
> > > 2.2 kernel.
> >
> > Only having a 2.2 doesn't seem very satisfactory to me.
> > However, given that no one from the debian-68k list has responded to my
> > previous message about this, I am not sure how to move forward.
>
> I've hesitated to reply hoping that Christian (cts), the m68k debian
> kernel maintainer, would add his thoughts. However, he's at a conference.
>
> m68k/mac has never worked to any real extent on 2.4. I think you can
> probably mark that bug wontfix, because I don't think anyone is really
> working on 2.4 for m68k/mac. When 2.6 is fully working, maybe we'll see
> a backport.
Why a backport and not a going directly to 2.6 support ?
> Several of the other subarchs such as amiga, atari, and sometimes vme,
> work well with 2.4.
>
> 2.6 work is ongoing and the mac is much better supported there, except
> with regards to adb (keyboard/mouse). So as long as you don't touch the
> keyboard, I understand it works pretty well (well enough to run one of
> our buildds). A rewrite of the adb subsystem is underway. Hopefully at
> that point, m68k/mac can move back into the present.
Mmm, how does that influence oldworld pmacs ? Or is the adb support in those
different ?
> We, the m68k porters, have recently added some vme and atari hardware to
> our collection of macs and amigas, so I hope better support for those
> subarchs to be forthcoming.
Cool.
> In short, I don't think you need to worry about m68k until Christian is
> ready to merge his stuff with ya'll.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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