Re: Support for 2.4.x kernels on hppa
Hi,
>I'd like to take an informal "survey" of what kernel versions people are
>using....
Mostly, 2.4.17, the debian default kernel or 2.4.25/6-pa*.
>For the last year or two, most of the kernel developers have been
>focusing on the 2.5/2.6 kernels; as a result many bugs that were
>presented in both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels have been only fixed in 2.6. This
>is understandable given that there are only a few active parisc-linux
>kernel developers.... moving foward it is becoming more difficult to
>support the 2.4.x kernels, and we are finding that we need to put in
>some not-so-nice workarounds in some userspace tools to cope with bugs
>in the 2.4 kernel.
I understand the pain to maintain 2 trees. I once had to maintain 4
separate trees (in SCCS - ouch), which at least doubled the pain, but
I think it grows exponential.
>So, the question is, how many of you run parisc-linux on 2.4
>"production" systems and "cannot" switch to 2.6? At last count there are
>about 1200 registered parisc-linux users on the p-l website, and i know
>at least some folks run parisc-linux on decent-sized clusters... so we
>definitely don't want to break things if people are using 2.4 actively
>on these systems and have legitimate reasons not to move to 2.6....
Right now, I use debian woody on all my boxes and upgrading to testing
is a PITA for me, as I only have an ISDN line (*one* line - 64k). I usually
install from CD-ROM.
>If you are one of those people who really care about 2.4 support, please
>speak up now!
Actually, I only have two HPPA production systems, my firewall (a 712/80)
and a 240, everything else is for fooling around - but both are on debian
woody and more or less tied to 2.4. Or are there offical woody backports of
the toolchain needed for 2.6 (preferred under 1G...)?
CU,
Uli
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