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Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the [...]

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the [...]

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the [...]

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the [...]

It was recently pointed out that most of the x86 architecture patches had been merged into the mainline 2.6.25 kernel, except for the kgdb patches. Linus Torvalds replied, "I won't even consider pulling it unless it's offered as a separate tree, not mixed up with other things. At that point I can give a look." He continued: "That said, I explained to Ingo why I'm not particularly interested in it. I don't think that 'developer-centric' debugging is really even remotely our problem, and that I'm personally a lot more interested in infrastructure that helps normal users give better bug-reports. And kgdb isn't even _remotely_ it. "So I'd merge a patch that puts oops information (or the whole console printout) in the Intel management stuff in a heartbeat. That code is likely much grottier than any kgdb thing will ever be (Intel really screwed up the interface and made it some insane XML thing), but it's also fundamentally more important - if it means that normal users can give oops reports after they happened in X (or, these days, probably more commonly during suspend/resume) and the machine just died."

Ingo Molnar summarized his pull request for changes to the x86 architecture bound for mainline inclusion in 2.6.25 noting, "it's not a small merge, it consists of 908 commits from 96 individual arch/x86 developers (!)". He continued, "a number of core files are changed as well: most notably percpu, debugging details, timers, the firewire remote debugging patch and ... the KGDB remote debugging stub in kernel/kgdb.c." He went on to detail the extent of the testing this tree has received, "in the past few weeks tens of thousands of random x86.git bzImages were successfully built and booted on a number of (commodity) 32-bit and 64-bit testsystems - and there has been a fair amount of test exposure on -mm as well." Regarding the remote kernel debugger, Ingo explained:

The final 2.6.24 Linux kernel is expected any day now, so the various subsystem maintainers have begun summarizing what changes are expected to be merged into the mainline kernel during the 2.6.25 merge window. Ingo Molnar spoke to changes for the x86 architecture, "there are 763 commits in x86.git so far, from more than 90 contributors, so it would be difficult to mention and credit every contribution in this mail." Along with a lengthy list of other changes, he included: "Continued, intense arch/x86 unification and cleanup work by lots of people; FIFO ticket spinlocks for better spinlock scalability; 'regset' generalizations - the most important step towards utrace support (==next-gen ptrace); support for more than 255 CPUs [up to 4096 - in theory up to 65535]; almost complete 64-bit paravirt guest support; KGDB support on x86, finally!" read more

"This series kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories. The relevant files are moved and adapted and Kconfig.debug was consolidated (thanks to Randy)," Sam Ravnborg said, describing a set of 6 patches to finish the migration of physical files into the new x86 architecture directory. He described it as "a nice patch series that deletes more lines than it adds," going on to explain:

"I had to modify both the top-level Makefile and the kconfig Makefile to accomplish this. It was done in such a way that it is trivial for other archs to use the same mechanism should they have the need.

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