[LV] State of the VAX nation

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> Kernel
> ~~~~~~
>   I've merged Linus's current GIT, which is at about 2.6.23-rc2, and
>   also fixed some of the fallout. Fixing this is, though, not yet done
>   completely, (*hint* *hint*) I'll accept pull requests.

 Marvellous!

>   As usual, you find the kernel at
> 
> 	git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbglaw/vax-linux.git
> 
>   If you want to merge Linus's upstream, this is how:
> 
> 	git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git master
> 
>   Current hot-spots are bit-rot in drivers/vax/char/dz.c and some more

 That should get merged with drivers/serial/dz.c eventually and become a 
platform device (the PMAC-A TURBOchannel boards are rare enough chances 
are we will never support them).  This will off-load the driver to the 
mainline (I pretend to maintain it).

>   iomem function needed by lib/devres.c .
> 
> 
> That's it for now.

 Thanks a lot -- I will pull the new headers soon in preparation to make 
use of them with glibc 2.4 (according to the plan outlined earlier).

  Maciej
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