Re: pre-2.3.4..

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Fri, 28 May 1999 11:33:33 +0200

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On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 06:53:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> There's a pre-2.3.4-1 out there in "testing" on ftp.kernel.org, which has
> the new scalable network code (well, the first cut of it, anyway). It also
> updates ISDN and PPC to newer versions. Please test it out and give
> feedback..
>

FWIW: this pre-release does not even link on SPARC because somebody forgot
to implement all those new locking functions used by the networking layer...
A quick check through the asm-<arch> directories reveals that they are also
missing for ALPHA, ARM, M68K, MIPS and PPC. Or to put it the other way round:
they are only implemented for I386 and SPARC64...

Dominik Kubla

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