Re: Reducing the number of kernels
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:50:24AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:21:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > I think it would be nice to really come down to one single kernel
> > version.
>
> Hopefully, you mean one version per arch and flavor (2.2, 2.4, 2.6)
> whenever possible. If we would have 3 up-to-date sources per arch
> it would be nice. I find not necessary having always corresponding
> binaries of course. For instance, 2.2 binaries on i386 is probably
> superfluous, but having the sources for specific applications
> (e.g. embedded) is a good thing anyway. And it seems reasonable
> for secteam also probably.
I think that is what we are all working towards.
The only exception would be that some architectures do
not build on some flavours at the moment (e.g. m68k on 2.4).
So they will be omitted for now. That means less work, not more,
that is probably a good thing.
--
Horms
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