On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Which is why you should be running 2.6 kernels on your powerpc box. The 2.4 > kernels are largely abandoned by upstream powerpc developers, and are not the > default on powerpc in debian anymore. Especially for largely uncommon > situations like highmem and smp kernels, the latest 2.6 kernels are your > safest bet. If we're discontining support for 2.4.x kernels on PowerPC, then we should stop shipping packages for them. Otherwise, support them. Moreover, I doubt highmem+SMP configurations are all that rare, particularly on recent hardware. -- G. Branden Robinson | I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, Debian GNU/Linux | and say that if God really existed, branden@debian.org | it would be necessary to abolish http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | him. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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