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Hi, |
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I see you arguments, but I just dislike the idea of "yet another kernel" |
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to maintain... But if you want to maintain it... maybe call it.. |
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amd64-experimental-sources... |
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Olivier Crete |
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tester@g.o |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Brad House wrote: |
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> Yes, that's true, but it seems as there may be a lot of |
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> beaurocracy to deal with, etc to get relevant patches |
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> in. At this point it's true that there aren't many needed |
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> patches, but I could definately see in the future when |
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> more Chipsets for the athlon64, etc arive that it could |
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> cause headaches. Eventually it would be nice to get all |
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> those patches merged back into gentoo-sources, but an |
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> amd64-sources might be a good testground to prove stability, |
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> etc to make sure it doesn't have any adverse effects. |
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> Also, there's some stuff within gentoo-sources that hasn't |
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> been tested on other architectures, or is known to not |
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> properly work on other architectures (e.g. preempt). Though |
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> I'm not certain any of these will cause problems on amd64, |
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> I can't guarantee they won't. |
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> -Brad |
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> Olivier Crete wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Even tho most of those things are found on a amd64 system, they dont seem |
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> > to be amd64 specific, wouldnt it be better to push for them to be included |
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> > in gentoo-sources... I frankly dont like the idea of having another kernel |
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> > for amd64. You might have noticed that all of my initial porting efforts |
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> > were based on the vanilla-sources and the the current amd64 livecd uses |
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> > vanilla-sources too. |
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> > |
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> > Olivier |
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> > |
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> > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Brad House wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>talking about kernels, is it ok, to add a |
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> >>amd64-sources for 2.4 kernels and amd64 |
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> >>and |
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> >>amd64-sources-dev for 2.6 kernels and amd64 |
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> >>to sys-kernel/ ? |
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> >> |
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> >>Just putting together some patch sets which |
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> >>include NForce3 w/ATA 133 patches, and patches |
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> >>for the RealTek GigaLan chipset on many amd64 |
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> >>mobo's, along with some other tweaks here and |
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> >>there. |
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> >>And don't want to clutter up the other branches. |
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> >>Anyhow, you said to check first .... |
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> >>-Brad |
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