Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren writes:
> kernel-patch-powerpc (unfortunately, we don't have anything later than > 2.4.22 at the moment. Trying to follow the kernel development with a > small team and no inside contacts feels like ice skating uphill) Well, a number of people that can be considered "inside contacts" follow this list. > mkuboot (or something along those lines, mkimage from U-Boot packaged > so people can run it on their own machines instead of mkvmlinuz). The idea of mkvmlinuz is to have something that takes an uncompressed kernel and a ramdisk, and flanges the two together to produce a single bootable binary for a given PowerPC sub-architecture. It should be possible to integrate mkimage into this. > So the question basically boils down to this: > Where is the right place to START? Forward port your 2.4 patch to 2.6, I would say. Then split it into digestable chunks and try to get them in mainline. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!