On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:55:39 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:40:12PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >> Because every architecture except i386 differes from the base kernel. >> IA64 has its own large patch set that has to be applied to the main >> kernel before kdb can be applied. Sparc uses the vger kernel tree. >> The -ac trees are different again. > >Umm, the ia64 kdb patch fails in exact two places when applied against >a stock 2.4.16 kernel.. vger usually is very near to the mainline, and >-ac is completly gone.
That is true now, but only since ia64 rolled a lot of changes into 2.4.16. Before 2.4.16, ia64 was significantly different, before 2.4.13 ac was a nightmare. IMHO having a core kdb patch with arch specific add ons will actually make it easier to support multiple architectures, you don't have to reconcile the core changes from two different patches because there is now only one copy. By definition, the arch add ons are completely independent so there are no reconciliation problems.
