>>>>> "keith" == Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
keith> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:55:39 +0100, keith> 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. keith> That is true now, but only since ia64 rolled a lot of changes into keith> 2.4.16. Before 2.4.16, ia64 was significantly different, before 2.4.13 keith> ac was a nightmare. IMHO having a core kdb patch with arch specific keith> add ons will actually make it easier to support multiple architectures, keith> you don't have to reconcile the core changes from two different patches keith> because there is now only one copy. By definition, the arch add ons keith> are completely independent so there are no reconciliation problems. core patches + different arch patches sounds good to me. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
