Re: RFC: kernel packages cleanup

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:43:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:37:24AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> >...
> > It depends on the subarchitecture. In the installer, m68k-amiga uses
> > 2.4.20, m68k-mac uses 2.2.25.
> 
> What exactly are the problems with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on macs?

2.4: The lack of kernel hackers. They simply don't boot on most macs
(there are exceptions, but I don't recall what models do work).
2.6: it'll eventually get there, but not just yet.

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