On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 07:03:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Guido, you're not going about it the right way. It's a three-way > > merge. You take a kernel.org tree, diff it against the architecture > > tree that you're interested in, and then wiggle it into applying to the > > kernel source package that comes with Debian. It's not all that hard, > > and there's a number of tools to help you (dirdiff, for instance; but > > all I ever use is diff, patch, a text editor, and CVS/BK). > > Why can't Debian have just one tree for multiple architectures like > SuSE and RedHat (sometimes) do. Okay suse supports 'only' i386, > x86_64,ppc,ppc64,s390,s390x,ia64 but their kernel also has patches > for sparc,sparc64,mips and m68k although I can't guarantee that these > really work in the relased tree (but last time I visted their office > people were playing with those ports in their spare time). > > Sure, it's more work but I think it's worth it.
Because no one's done it? We can't count on it because the architecture ports become available at different times; m68k still hasn't caught up IIRC. It would be nice, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer