On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:25:54PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:53:49PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > > Is it not time to merge 8xx from linuxppc-2.5 into Linus tree? > > > > > > > > I know the 8xx is not fully functional yet but this isn't done > > > > soon I think it won't happen at all. The 8xx arch can be made to > > > > depend on BROKEN in Linus tree to make it clear that it isn't > > > > working properly yet. > > > > > > I've been the hard-ass about holding back on moving 8xx forward. Once > > > 2.6.9 finally comes out (assuming and hoping that Linus really intends > > > to do a release and not -rc5), I'll start moving stuff over and make it > > > depend on BROKEN hopefully in time for 2.6.10-rc1. > > > > This is great news, thanks. > > what does this mean in terms of urgency in getting changes into the > 8xx stuff, then? does this imply a fixed window of opportunity in the > near future, or does it mean that once stuff starts to get moved > upstream, it will get moved on a regular basis? just curious.
Once upstream, new changes won't (unless not-fully-baked) go into linuxppc-2.5. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
