On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:11:27PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
>
> On 12/12/2009 03:12 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> I'm looking for a Git repository which corresponds to the kernel in
>> the uClinux distribution, to see the changes with history in a
>> cherry-pickable form. Is there a repository?
>
> No, there is no git tree for that kernel (or CVS, or any other
> repositary type).
>
>
>> The uClinux distribution I'm looking at is:
>>
>>      
>> http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist/patches/uClinux-dist-20090618-20091129.patch.gz
>>
>> applied to:
>>
>>      
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/uclinux/uClinux%20Stable/dist-20090618/uClinux-dist-20090618.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>>
>> For Git repositories, I looked around and found these which were
>> mentioned at various times and sounded promising:
>>
>>      
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu.git
>>
>>      git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu.git
>>      (because it contains generic no-mmu changes too, and is kept up to date)
>>
>> and of course :-)
>>
>>      git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>>
>>
>>
>> To my surprise, the kernel in uClinux-dist-20091129 contains many
>> changes which aren't in the above repositories.
>>
>> Have I missed the right repo, or isn't there one?
>
> That kernel is really just a compilation of lots of other trees
> (mostly vendors trees), almost none of which are git trees.
> Much of the change in there is probably not mainline ready in
> any shape or form.
>
> In terms of m68knommu support it generally tracks behind my
> git kernel.org git tree.

Seems to me m68knommu in current Linus releases of 2.6 is actually
quite good.  Certainly works for me on mcf527[01].

-- 
Len Sorensen
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