[LV] State of the VAX nation

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 16:13:54 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 
> >   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).

Yeah... The current one is even quite hard-coded to support *exactly*
four lines.  I'm not all that sure, but I seem to remember to have
some QBus board around that has 2x dz11 on them (for eight lines
total) and these seem to be not too rare. Maybe I'll have a look at
those in a far future.

> >   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).

While being at this... There's a shitload of new syscalls that need to
be wired up. Another starter's project (maybe except the 64bit
syscalls, for which they'd have a look at other 32bit ports.)

MfG, JBG

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      Jan-Benedict Glaw      jbglaw at lug-owl.de              +49-172-7608481
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