On Friday 06 February 2004 16:23, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-01-30 at 04:16, Post, Mark K wrote:
> >
> I would be that Larry will roll a 390 client if someone can give him the
> right bits (or explain hercules 8)). The big difference really is that
> IBM release tested patches to recent releases, and don't always
> integrate them or track current kernels (and Im sure there is good
> business sense in bits of that decision).
Larry has actually been providing BK on s390 for a long time (with some
interruptions), and there has already been an attempt to provide
kernels on bk://linux-390.bkbits.net/ early last year but that was
discontinued.
> > On the other hand, David Boyes is more than willing to give Marcelo an
> > account on Sine Nomine's z/VM system if Marcelo would be able (and
> > willing) to make use of it. �That would probably be the preferred
> > situation for everyone.
>
> Delegation works better. You know S/390 better for example.
>
> I can't speak for Marcelo but I certainly preferred having non x86 stuff
> come from someone who had merged it with the latest code, run it and
> thinks it works, than to do it myself.
AFAICT, it is unlikely that the new features from this code drop will ever
make it into Marcello's tree because he is in maintainance mode. Nor will
there be recommended code drops for Linux versions past 2.4.21 on
developerWorks, because IBM is also in maintainance mode...
Arnd <><
