> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:17:19PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Joakim Tjernlund writes: > > > > > The Machine Check exception handler is broken on MPC 8xx CPU's > > > This patch should fix it. > > > Tom Rini asked me to send it to you. > > > > Hmmm, this doesn't look like it will apply. The patch looks to be > > against linuxppc-2.5, not Andrew's/Linus' tree. > > > > In fact I don't think there is a great deal of point in applying this > > patch until we update arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S with all the other > > changes we have in the linuxppc-2.5 tree. > > Aside from one less thing to pull out and push ahead? I was hoping to > avoid exactly that if possible. :)
Well, since the stock kernel is broken for 8xx I don't think that is going to work. You need to push the 8xx changes in linuxppc-2.5 to akpm and then it will be possible/meaningful to generate patches against the stock kernel. Jocke ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
