ppc64 submission

Greetings,

Located on kernel.org in pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall/ you will find
linuxppc64-2.4.8-1.patch.gz. Please consider this for inclusion into the linux kernel sources. It applies against 2.4.8 as the name suggests.

Included in this patch :

- create and populate arch/ppc64
- create and populate include/asm-ppc64
- 1 bug fix to drivers/macintosh/nvram.c (change long declaration to loff_t)
- 1 fix to drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c the driver was dma'ing into the stack, the fix changes that to properly
kmalloc

Future bug fixes, additional patches etc I'll keep in
pub/linux/kernel/people/tgall on kernel.org.

Information about the ppc64 kernel can be found at linuxppc64.org

Any questions by all means please hollar!

Regards,

Tom

Tom Gall - PPC64 Maintainer      "Where's the ka-boom? There was
Linux Technology Center           supposed to be an earth
(w) [email protected]         shattering ka-boom!"
(w) 507-253-4558                 -- Marvin Martian
(h) [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc

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Just one comment. I looked at this, and the following config options are added, but don't have Configure.help entries, so this is a "heads-up" that help texts for the following may eventually be needed.

CONFIG_ISTAR
CONFIG_KDB
CONFIG_KDB_OFF
CONFIG_MOTOROLA_HOTSWAP
CONFIG_MSCHUNKS
CONFIG_PPCDBG
CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES

Thanks in advance,
Steven

Hi Steve,

Thanks much for the catch. I knew there were a few we needed to get added.
I'll post a patch for these in the next day or so.

Regards,

Tom

Tom Gall - PPC64 Maintainer      "Where's the ka-boom? There was
Linux Technology Center           supposed to be an earth
(w) [email protected]         shattering ka-boom!"
(w) 507-253-4558                 -- Marvin Martian
(h) [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc