Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:49:55 -0700

Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>  - v0.96 sources
>>
>>  - v0.99.12 announcement
>>
>>  - sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie 
>>    ends) as well as announcements for all of them
>>
>>  - all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r
>>
>>  - announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.
>>
>> Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of 
>> Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.
> 
> Umm...  IIRC, tar was unhappy with several tarballs on ftp.kernel.org.
> Do you have replacements (or instructions re combination of tar(1) options
> to make it eat them)?

There is some stuff at http://mirrors.kernel.org/oldlinux/

That's all I have, I'm afraid...

	-hpa