Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 03:51, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a
> > wider audience.
> > 
> > Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even
> > benh has mentioned to me that 2.4 support for powerpc will be going away
> > in the near term (well, not the eact words, but you get my meaning). And
> > i guess that Jens also is only interested on 2.6 kernels, even though he
> > is comaintainer of the 2.4 kernels too.
> 
> Well... That isn't really what I said ;) What I said is that I don't
> have time to actively maintain the PowerMac support in 2.4, that is make
> it evolve & support newer machines. That doesn't mean that PPC will be
> going away from 2.4 ;)

I think the exact quote was that you are not going to support G5 on 2.4
forever. But anyway, a move to 2.6 should be salutable if all the
linuxppc developers have much more interest for 2.6 trhan 2.4, and we
will be saddled with this for the next 2 years probably, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther