Wolfgang, In addition to this nice tree discussion, I've a question: from what 'official ppc' tree do patches eventually get into the official linux kernel tree(s) at kernel.org? only linuxppc-2.4? Or all?
thanks, Jaap-Jan On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 17:44, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Tolunay, > > in message <12605.216.110.51.8.1080057816.squirrel at www.orkun.us> you wrote: > > > > > A more up-to-date implementation seems to be in the > > > "linuxppc-2.4" tree. Are there some open issues or known > > > problems? I realized that the L2 cache has been disabled > > > recently: > > > > Regarding penguinppc.org BitKeeper trees, I was told that > > linuxppc_2_4_devel tree is now dead and all commits are done against > > linuxppc-2.4. Perhaps maintainers can clarify that in more detail. My > > 405GP snapshot is coming from linuxppc-2.4. > > Officially linuxppc-2.4 is the official tree ;-) But then it seems > that there is still a lot of difference between linuxppc_2_4_devel > and linuxppc-2.4, and I think you can find new features in both trees > that are not (yet?) present in the other tree. > > > There is also another linuxppc_2_4_devel tree maintained by DENX. I don't > > I guess Wolfgang Grandegger is aware of this. His other email address > is <wg at denx.de> :-) > > But there are so many other trees. There is things like the ameslab > tree or the Linux-Tiny Tree or CELinux source tree or ... > > > > know the sync state between these two trees. It is my understanding that > > DENX tree has some fixes that might not be in the BK trees. > > Our linuxppc_2_4_devel tree is in sync with the BK linuxppc_2_4_devel > tree. But there is lots of additional stuff in out tree that never > made it into the "official trees". So many of our contributions were > rejected or delayed or ignored that I finally gave up. > > > IMHO, the community would be best served by single set of sources... > > Indeed. But I think this is as likely as a world without war :-( > > I would be perfectly happy if there was some plan or roadmap or just > a description of the current state which says which tree is in which > state, if it is maintained and by whom, and how long it will be > maintained, and when or why or by whom it might be declared as "dead" > (as happened with the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree), or if anybody is > actually taking care of the known problems, and when, etc. > > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux > Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de > Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. > - Terry Pratchett, _Moving Pictures_ > -- J.G.J. Boor Anton Philipsweg 1 Software Engineer 1223 KZ Hilversum AimSys bv tel. +31 35 689 1941 Postbus 2194, 1200 CD Hilversum mailto:jjboor at aimsys.nl ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
