On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:06:37PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Kernel profiling support (dead)
> CONFIG_PROFILE
> This option used to enable kernel profiling, but is now dead.
> Use the boot option "profile=" instead.
>
> Profile shift count (dead)
> CONFIG_PROFILE
John Levon asks:
> why bother ? Anyone using this needs to read man readprofile anyway.
So then the help text should mention "man readprofile".
Why bother? Because the use case is not someone who knows about
profiling. The use case is someone who sees this boolean option appear
on the screen
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Linux is an OS by hackers, for hackers, and it's part of our culture to
> share information. If an option is a historical relic and connected to
> nothing, say so. If an option is very new and is not used yet because
> someone's tree isn't merged
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
Hi Keith,
> _If_ I can get CML2 support working before 2.5.1 comes out then we go
> 2.5.2-pre1 Add kbuild 2.5 with both CML1 and CML2 support.
> 2.5.2-pre2 Remove kbuild 2.4.
Do you plan to fix the x2 slowdown before removing kbuild 2.4 ?
Or is this so
Hi all
> 2.5.2-pre2 Remove kbuild 2.4 code, rename Makefile-2.5 to Makefile.
> i386, ia64, sparc, sparc64 can compile using kbuild 2.5.
> Other architectures cannot compile until they convert
> to kbuild 2.5. The kbuild group can help with th
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:22:52 +0100 (CET),
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you plan to fix the x2 slowdown before removing kbuild 2.4 ?
>Or is this something that will be worked on as we progress through 2.5.
It will be worked on during 2.5. I don't have time to rewrite the core
code _a
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:42:15 -0500,
Ghozlane Toumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How hard is the translation from 2.4 to 2.5 ?
>
>I happen to be using an alpha as my main computer, but i'm quite new to this
>arch, so if the conversion doesn't require heavy guruness i guess i can
>help.. if not, i
