[LV] Newbie - where to start?

[Neale Banks]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 20:58:07 +1000, Neale Banks <neale at id.oz.au> wrote:

> > * if I'm not likely to get into compiler hacking, will I need a SVN
> > checkout of GCC (as distinct from a recent release, e.g. 4.1.1 from May,
> > possibly plus a patch or three)?
> 
> You'll need the sources for sure. Patches are there, but they're only
> agains current SVN/CVS head.

Is that the gcc* files in $CVS/toolchain/patches/ ?
[...]

> > For the kernel, what are the options?  Are there "linux-vax" patches to
> > apply against a current kernel.org release (e.g. latest -rcX)?  Or must
> > I track sources/patches with GIT?
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jbglaw/vax-linux.git;a=summary
> 
> We've already got a tree, though I need to merge Linus's work of the
> last months.

Is there, or can I readily generate, a set of patches against
Linus/kernel.org?

Thanks,
Neale.
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