On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This will be necessary for major security issues, e.g. CAN-2004-0415, >> anyway, so I think we'll be okay. The bit about latest kernel-source >> is rather hopeful; if we take this as a precedent for architectures to >> update generic kernel-source without updating other architectures' >> kernel-images, then quite a bit can be done in the future.
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:48:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Not sure i fully follow you here. There's a major security update pending, so we'll need to upload new kernel images for everything in the universe in short order anyway. On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This would be great. Is it pending in the linux-ppc tree already? On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:48:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, the marvell-mm patch is pulled from the -mm tree, and Christoph said it > will go upstream. I have no idea what the marvell-pegasos patch status is, i > think Christoph will be able to respond better on this one, though i had the > impression that he wanted to submit it upstream or something. > Both the pegasos and the g4 errata patches should have gone upstream. I posted > the pegasos patch on the linuxppc-dev list for review, and it was okeyed by > benh, who also said he would submit it (altough directly to Marcello's tree). > The same goes for the g4 errata patch, where Nico did a first version, and > benh rewrote, and said he would commit. > I have no idea what the exact status of those two is though, and i have the > feeling that benh has had other stuff in his mind these past days, so maybe he > didn't do the commit part of it, not sure. Also, i don't read the bitkeeper > commit logs from Marcello's tree, so i cannot check if they where applied or > not. In Linux, no one ever really knows the exact status of their patches. Anyhow, this sounds good, and like hch has taken care of getting things upstream before I'd even looked once again. =) -- wli
