On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:55:09PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Its also quite off the mark for amd64. The last kerel version had a 0 Byte > >> patch for amd64 and only the current one has some patches in there to > >> fix recent bugs. > > > > So what exact problems does the patch you propose solve? Which systems > > don't boot/corrupt data/start nuclear wars without it? Do you > > understand what exactly the patch does? > > You have to ask Frederik about the exact contents of his last > upload. Personally I haven't kept a close eye on what he put into the > 2.6.7 patch but there was only talk about a handfull of patches > special to 2.6.7 for amd64 and there were no patches before that. > > MfG > Goswin > > PS: Is there a simple patch system to manage the patchlets of an -arch > patch that everyone should use? Something that makes it easy to get > them applied, unaplied, edited and so on.
Please, checkout the kernel-parch-powerpc package from the subversion repo, Jens realised a (rather simple) system for doing this, that could easily be cloned to other -arch patch packages. Friendly, Sven Luther
