linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add rdc321x defconfig file

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Message-ID: <20080225140901.GA8556@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:09:01 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rdc321x defconfig file

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:45:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> > > I've seen architectures that were build-tested for the _first time_ 
> > > at around 2.6.24-rc8...
> > 
> > That can't be true.
> > 
> > Can you name what architectures you think of and why you think noone 
> > tried to compile them before?
> 
> sorry, s/build-tested/boot-tested.

That's quite a difference.

> there's been only 6 commits to arch/v850 between v2.6.23 and v2.6.24.
> None of them seems to suggest that anyone ever tested v850 in the last
> year or so.

Even longer, see
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/539

It's the only port we have that is completely unmaintained and broken 
for ages.

But the fact that the v850 port does not even compile is known for a 
long time, and nothing about this fact changed around 2.6.24-rc8.

> 	Ingo
>...

cu
Adrian

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