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Re: 2.6-test1 on ppc?



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I was very gently nudged...told that "I should stick w/ 2.4.21-behnxxxxx, as 
that's cutting edge for powerpc." I have to admit that I'm rather indignant 
about this "advice." (on this list, no less!) However, I have been told via 
irc that woody doesn't have a sufficient tool chain to properly compile 
2.6.0-testx kernel yet, and elsewhere that the linux kernel is now an 
exclusive community of only developers, and that us peons who want vanilla 
kernels to compile for their (non-i386) platforms just have to wait. 

Russell

On Saturday 19 July 2003 06:21 am, Lee Braiden wrote:
> Anyone managed to compile this, or know what the status is (supposed?) to
> be? It fails very badly on my config, for a string of issues.
>
> First of all, ppc (or powerpc)/time.c had dumb troubles, something like:
>
>   long num_nsecs;
>
> and then, a few lines later:
>
>   int num_nsecs;
>
> Fixing that worked ok for the next few files, but then other errors came
> up.
>
> In short, it seems like it hasn't even been tested on ppc yet.  That's not
> really the status of ppc support at this stage, is it?  Is there a separate
> branch for 2.5/6's ppc support, or something?
>
> --
> - Lee.

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