Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:03:46AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:31:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:57:34PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of kernel flavours (we weren't, but what the hey); is the plan
> >> still to reduce all of the x86 flavours down to two: generic x86 and
> >> generic x86-smp?
> >
> > "Still"? When was this ever the plan?
>
> It was a discussion I observed at various times and places during debconf
> in Helsinki, so I was under the impression that reducing the burden on the
> kernel team was one of their goals.
>
> However, I may have been mistaken.
Well, i am not fully sure that with the current infrastructure, reducing x86
flavours will bring much reduction to to the kernel team's burden, but i may
be wrong, not dealing with x86 myself.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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