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Re: Kernel nightly snapshots..

From
RKRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date
May 22, 2005, 17:01 UTC
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<20050522180140.A21384@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
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<20050522120954.GH15178@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:09:54PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> > That should be done against the 2.6 kernel, and that tree is already
> > available.
> 
> it is a shame that 2.6 doesn't even boot on this machine[1]. And even if
> the patch doesn't do its way upstream its good to have something like
> git available to to vendortracking.
> 
> 	Thomas
> 
> [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4415
This bugzilla entry unfortunately gives me two problems:
1. I don't know what a 2.6.x-hh kernel is, or what modifications there
   are from the 2.6 mainline kernel.
2. I don't have visibility of this jornada list, nor what diagnosis
   has been done so far.

It's also worth pointing out that the patch there is for a 2.4 kernel, and therefore probably isn't suitable for 2.6 as is.

What I can say is that there's been very little flow of patches into mainline for Jornada 7xx - the last attempt was back in January 2002. Many of the problems from that time stemmed from me having a separate tree, which caused the expectation that I would handle integration of _anything_. Since the -rmk tree is no longer a public offering, and usable ARM support is merged into mainline, this expectation has been removed.

What this does mean, however, is that from my point of view, Jornada is a dead and unmaintained machine as far as 2.6 goes, and is ripe for removal from the kernel source - the only reason it builds today is because I've been tweaking it to keep it building. Whether it actually works or not is a completely different matter.

The way to stop it from being removed is for someone to step up and maintain the thing in mainline. How easy this would be is also something I have no view on, since I've no idea what's outstanding, nor what unmerged handhelds features Jornada 7xx depends on.

All in all, due to the above, I think submitting bugs for -hh kernels to the mainline bugzilla is a worthless exercise unless they can be proven to be relevant to mainline kernels.

Sorry.
-- 
Russell King
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