On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:34:37AM -0700, David N. Welton wrote: > Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes: > > > This is normal behaviour with Paulus' kernels. ;) > > > > I suggest using Ben's kernels for current PowerBooks because it has sleep > > support among other nice things. > > Any idea when might this stuff make it into the *linux* kernel? It's > disappointing to have to follow forks of the linux kernel to even have > it compile or run decently. quite true, to make things worse running these rsync trees is the same as running CVS snapshots of other types of software, the tree can be broken, half baked, incomplete or unstable depending litterally on the time of day you happened to have rsynced your tree. the powerpc kernel guys do send patches upstream fairly regularly but they are often ignored, this was the case in 2.2 for a long time until Alan Cox took over its maintainership entirely, now 2.2.19 is fully 100% merged for PowerMacs. 2.4 has more of the powerpc patches merged in 2.4.3 but not nearly enough. 2.4.3-acX may be in better shape but i doubt it, i don't think all the patches have been sent to Alan Cox for 2.4 yet. i think benh and the others are sending patches upstream and they are slowly starting to get merged, the thing is Linus is exceedinly picky about what he accepts, if the patch is too big he just ignores it, if it he doesn't like it he just ignores it. rarely does he tell anyone why (or at least to the powerpc guys..) so it tends to be hit or miss guessing to see what linus will accept. the best way to get things merged it seems is to send it to alan cox and let him send it to Linus. my guess is 2.4 won't be powerpc capable until 2.4.8 at the soonest, and that is optimistic. my advice is unless you HAVE to run 2.4 for reasons of hardware support (ie 2.2 simply doesn't work on your new machine) you should run 2.2.19. 2.4 is NOT ready for prime time yet. on any archetecture. (see a recent Alan Cox mail to linux-kernel). and don't give me any `it works for me' thats not the point. > -- > David N. Welton > Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ > Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ > Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ > Work: http://www.innominate.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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