Carsten Milling wrote:
> I was wondering what's the current status of the various kernel source
> packages for ppc. The most recent (unstable ) version of
> ppc-development-sources is 2.6.5_rc2-r1 while gentoo-dev-sources has
> 2.6.5-r1 marked stable for ppc and development-sources even has stable
> 2.6.6_rc1. 
Then benh tree is outdated because he now commits directly to the 
mainline, the ppc-development-sources originally was just the 2.6 benh 
tree + minor patches (gcloop)
> 
> So, which is the best package to stay up-to-date with the 2.6 kernel
> series? What's the difference between ppc-development-sources and
> gentoo-dev-sources?
gentoo-dev-sources is mainline+many useful patches.
ppc-development-sources is benh tree+minor things (gcloop)
> 
> I checked the Gentoo Linux Kernel Guide at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml but it seems a little
> outdated. Is there any other documentation of the kernel choices
> available for ppc?
Not sure, anyway I suggest you to use the development-sources or the 
gentoo-dev-sources.
> 
> Regards,
> Carsten Milling
> 
lu

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