[armedslack] I think I am missing something?

[Thierry MERLE]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:49:42 +0100 (BST)
Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:

[...]
> The SheevaPlug support, AFAIK, came directly from Marvell and was
> always available from Marvell's git tree during development.
> I'll have to do a bit more digging around to find out why it's been
> forked.  I hope that the development work does end up in the main line
> kernel otherwise these devices end up being a waste of money since the
> kernel patches become unmaintained.
> 
The kernel patches come in mainline, but in linux-next before mainline:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eeae54c68e91c46ec170e764d1cceac81f35969
I think the fork is more to have a working kernel than to have a real fork of linux.

Thierry

P.S.: I received by SP, I will play with flashing a kernel and initrd.