On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:18:28 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Steven! > > >> The Super-H architecure seems to be without any maintainer. > >> Maybe Steven cares to pick this patch up. Dunno... > > > Yeah, I remember when the SH maintainer left. > > > I can pick it up. How urgent is it? Does it need to go in before the > > next merge window? And does it need to be tagged for stable? > > I am one of the Debian porters of the SH port. Currently, the kernel > package fails to build from source on our automatic build machines > due to this bug. Here is the full build log where you can see it > fail with gcc-4.8: Unfortunately I don't have a 4.8 cross compiler for superH. It seems to work fine with -m32 with 4.6 and earlier (which I do have). > > > > http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=sh4&ver=3.16.7-ckt4-1&stamp=1421425783 > > Since the SH port of Debian was long time poorly maintained, this > issue hasn't got any attention for quite a while which means the > most current kernel version we have at the moment on SH is 3.2.0 > something. I asked Michael to submit this change on my behalf since > he has submitted kernel patches in the past. > > Thus, it would be nice if this fix could be merged ASAP upstream > and included in all stable releases as well such that we get a > working up-to-date kernel on SH soon. I'll add this info as well to the change log. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
