Request pull for sparc64 fixes in gutsy

Ben Collins ben.collins at ubuntu.com
Thu Dec 13 21:41:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 21:08 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Tim Gardner wrote:
> > Ben Collins wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:22 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> >>> Ben Collins wrote:
> >>>> Whoever does the next upload for gutsy, please pull from this tree to
> >>>> fix some important sparc64/sun4v issues:
> >>>>
> >>>> git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ldom-2.6.22
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>> Do you want just the SPARC64 changes? He's got some other cruft in his
> >>> tree that doesn't appear to be SPARC specific.
> >> Do you have a quick list of the changes pulling from here would bring
> >> in? I know there are a few futex fixes that are very important to
> >> sparc64 stability in general. They might appear to be outside the
> >> sparc64 architecture.
> >>
> > 
> > See attached.
> > 
> > 
> 
> For the security release I will pull the [FUTEX] and [SPARC64] changes.
> 
> The [NIU] patches relate to the Neptune ethernet driver 
> (drivers/net/niu.[ch]), do we want these in a security release?

NIU is part of Huron support, so yes.

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