Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:57:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > - ACPI needs the relax patches merging to work on lots of laptops
> 
> Working in 2.4.21-ac, Toshiba cheap laptops now run a treat. Forward
> port looks like a patch command
> 
> 
> Other items:
> 
> PC9800 is not fully merged - most of this I think is 2.7 stuff but a few
> bits might be 2.6 candidate
> 
> SH3/SH3-64 need resynching, as do some other ports. No impact on
> mainstream platforms hopefully

That brings up another issue:  what ports do regularly work with 2.5
mainline?  I've been working with David to get all those core changes ia64
needs (and there's still a lot) sorted out so maybe 2.6 will work out of
the box.  I guess some other arches (parisc, mips?) will need similar
work.