> As such, if nobody working on non-x86 bothers with submitting their diffs to > Marcello, or only does it once or twice a year, then, yes indeed, 2.4 becomes > hopelessly forked and out-of-sync and it makes it impossible to use any of the > common patches on non-x86 development trees of matching major versions.
I think you are mixing up two things -- it's not that we like to fork the kernel, in fact, willy has been hard at work submitting our 2.6 diffs into the official tree and our diff against upstream is quite small for 2.6. but there are only half a handful of active parisc kernel developers, and there's not enough hours to sync two kernel trees and continue to maintain glibc, gcc, debian packages, .... so, if you want to help submit 2.4 diffs to marcelo, i'm sure none of us will complain :-) but you'll probably find that many of the remaining changes will not apply easily to upstream without significant work. my 2 cents, randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/