Re: S/390 Port? (Was Re: Linux 2.2.14pre14)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:26:28 +0000 (GMT)

> > o Most of the IBM S/390 port merge (Assorted IBM folks)
> > | This is in to sort out the final oddments not
> > | the complete beastie.
>
> Is this just a basic port, or have they fleshed it out alot already?

It seems to be a full SMP port with disk, networking and consoles.

> Have they made any information on it available online yet? Or will there
> probably be an official announcement next week?

I expect so, and also to see them put gdb/gcc/binutils/glic patches up.

> More importantly in my mind, is it being rolled into 2.3 as well, or is

I've not been sent any 2.3.x code so I guess they will do a 2.4.x port in time
or someone will. It seems a relatively sane architecture.

Alan

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