Re: Dealing with 2.4 bugreports that are fixed in 2.6 only
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:12:54PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [2004-06-27 17:29]:
> > > There's a few reports against 2.4 kernel that are fixed in 2.6 and
> > > are unlikely to get in 2.4 every (Examples: #146956 or #130217).
> > > How should we deal with them in the BTS?
> >
> > Is there any chance of those fixes being backported to 2.4 and how
> > much work would it be? It seems that you guys have all given up on
> > 2.4 completely, but I'd imagine that the majority of our users will
> > still use 2.4 for a while.
>
> The majority of our users will use what sarge provides as default.
> Backporting the above changes is possible, but non-trivial, and it's
> RFE's anyway, not bugs in the strict sense.
>
> > This is really related to some other postings in this thread: are we
> > ready to move to 2.6 by default?
>
> Only looking from the upstream kernel POV:
>
> alpha:
> ok
> i386:
> ok
> ia64:
> ok
> m68k:
> mainline seems to work for atari and m68k with small patches
> AFAICS. some subarchitectures seems to be lagging behind badly
> (even worse than in 2.4)
> mips:
> upstream 2.6 works nicely on maybe subarches but badly or not
> at all on some others.
> parisc:
> seems to be fine in general but IIRC some features are still
> missing
> ppc:
> for non-embedded plattforms 2.6 is ok, embedded plattforms are
> still catching up
> sparc:
> no SMP support on 2.6 yet, and AFAIK only sun4c/m works reliable
> sparc64:
> ok
> x86_64:
> ok, Andi Kleen said x86_64 in 2.4 is in deep maintaince mode
This means that 2.6 could be made the default on :
alpha, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc64 (mmm, do we have sparc64
kernels ?) and amd64. And the default per subarch on some of the others.
I would go for it, but am under the impression that we have only i386
and (once the NEW queue gets processed again hopefully :() on powerpc.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
>
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