Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-dev

From: Mike Wellington <wellington@××××××.com>
To: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-ppc-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Fwd: PPC kernel plan
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:48:44
Message-Id: 409B938A.3070607@lucent.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Fwd: PPC kernel plan by Pieter Van den Abeele
1 Do these kernels have Xilinx V2P (Virtex-II Pro) support?
2
3 I can add it.
4
5 -mike wellington
6 mike@×××××××.com
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9 Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
10 > This is what we are working on regarding ppc kernels:
11 >
12 > *From: *Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
13 > *Date: *Tue 27 Apr 2004 16:32:29 CEST
14 > *To: *ppc@g.o
15 > *Cc: *Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>, johnm@g.o
16 > *Subject: PPC kernel plan
17 > *
18 > Hi,
19 >
20 > I would like to make the following proposal regarding ppc kernels:
21 >
22 >
23 > *Ebuild categories:*
24 >
25 > - development-sources: 2.6
26 >
27 > - gentoo-sources: 2.4 + whateverwewant
28 > - gentoo-dev-sources: 2.6 + whateverwewant + gcloop
29 >
30 > - benh-sources: 2.4 + benh
31 > - benh-dev-sources: 2.6 + benh + gcloop
32 >
33 > - pegasos-sources: 2.4 + pegasos
34 > - pegasos-dev-sources: 2.6 + pegasos + gcloop
35 >
36 > - ames-dev-sources: 2.6 + ames (+ gcloop)
37 >
38 >
39 > *Virtuals:*
40 >
41 > - virtual/ppc-sources -> benh-sources || pegasos-sources
42 > - virtual/ppc-dev-sources -> benh-dev-sources || pegasos-dev-sources
43 > || gentoo-dev-sources || development-sources
44 >
45 > - virtual/ppc64-sources -> ames-dev-sources
46 > - virtual/ppc64-dev-sources -> ames-dev-sources
47 >
48 > The idea for having 'dev' and 'regular' sources i to prevent portage
49 > from upgrading users with a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel.
50 > Relation to keywording: dev-sources can be masked stable, no need to
51 > keep those in unstable forever.
52 >
53 > The idea for separating pegasos from benh is to make keywording easier.
54 >
55 > *Notes:*
56 >
57 > - ppc-sources-crypto has no maintainer and has been removed from cvs
58 > - ppc-sources-dev merges into gentoo-sources on the condition that
59 > gentoo-sources migrates *completely* to kernel-2.eclass
60 > - ppc-sources-benh gets merged with ppc-sources and the set is
61 > renamed to benh-sources
62 > - pegasos compatible ebuilds go into pegasos-*
63 > - ppc-development-sources is renamed to benh-dev-sources
64 >
65 >
66 > *Headers:*
67 >
68 > Preferably use linux-headers.
69 >
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