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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:32:35PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Indeed - (Alpha is actually one of the few non-x86 architectures
> that actually built fully for me in a recent 2.5.x - and made a passable
> attempt at booting)

One of the ARM machine types which I consider being closest to being
completely buildable in Linus tree was this -><- close to being buildable
between 2.5.49 to 2.5.50.

In 2.5.49, it failed because we had a couple of references in ide.c to
functions previously removed.  In 2.5.50, the IDE DMA stuff changed and
made icside.c unbuildable.  I'm not going to get a chance to look at this
for a while, so don't expect it to change.

Not only that, but the ARM module stuff needs changes in mm/vmalloc.c so
we don't have to have a _third_ ruddy implementation of the same code.
(which currently causes a link error.)  mm/vmalloc.c needs to become more
general - basically "allocate a region of size A alignment B between
address C and address D".  Oh, not to mention the inherently racy code
found within mm/vmalloc.c

I'll now step off my soap box. 8)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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