Bug#266839: Error while compiling mips kernel 2.6.7 on Cobalt Qube2

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:45:49PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> severity 266839 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> Wouter van Reeven wrote:
> > Package: kernel-source-2.6.7
> > Version: 2.6.7-4
> > 
> > After downloading the kernel-source package I unzipped and untarred it.
> > Then I ran make menuconfig and checked and verified the correct
> > architecture and machine specs were loaded. Then I quit with saving
> > changes.
> > Next I ran "make" which exited with this error:
> 
> The kernel-source package is known to miss half a ton of mips-specific
> patches, it is not supposed to work for mips/mipsel in its raw form.
> This may change for future versions if integration of linux-mips.org
> modifications into the kernel.org tree works well.
> 
> 2.6 cobalt needs AFAIK some further porting work as well. I plan to do
> kernel-patch-2.6.8-mips post sarge, and hope the cobalt support is good
> enough by then.

Just a question, why post-sarge ? Apart from not enough time or such, is there
technical reasons for that ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther