Re: goals for next release
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:18:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> - security fixed, 2.4.24 kernel (with SATA support)
>
> Done for stock i386.
>
> Other arches may not be able to update to 2.4.24, but should at
> least be updated to versions w/o all the security problems.
> I think powerpc is completly fixed already, what about the rest?
Yes, the powerpc 2.4.22 kernel has the security fixes. I plan to move to
2.4.24 in the near future, but the various linuxppc trees are a total
mess, and nobody did tag the moment when it was 2.4.24, and not
something else, so uptonow, i was only able to get 2MB+ patches out of
bitkeeper.
I also plan to move using the -benh linuxppc tree, in order to have more
support for newer pmac hardware. Benh said he would do a proper 2.4.24
tag on his tree, and so i am waiting for this.
I will add two power3 and power4 flavours too, for those arches.
> - subarchitecture support for powerpc and m68k
>
> In progress. Actually, this may still happen for beta2/powerpc.
Yeah, it is almost there, need a full round of testing though, and the
addition of power3/4 based hardware.
Didn't really test on pmac/G5 hardware though, no idea if work is needed
for this one. Anyone has a G5 pmac handy ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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