Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:32:35 +0000 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: lkml, bugme.osdl.org? |
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* Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk) wrote in reply to my reply: > > This was something that was brought up in a discussion at the kernel > summit by (I think) Paul Mackerras. The question was how to make > sure we get all arch's in sync before doing a release. > It should be fairly straightforward thing to do for 2.6.x releases, > but during 2.5.x when stuff is changing so rapidly, it doesn't make > sense to hold up the majority of users just so the other archs can > play catch up.
True; thats why I only started submitting these now we are feature chilled. I reckoned it was important not to get into the misconception we didn't have many bugs left because things were starting to chug along nicely on x86.
> > Don't forget that ia64, x86-64 and s390 are all potentially growing > > users of Linux. > > ia64 and x86-64 maybe, but s390 is way out of the pricerange of most > Linux users. Those who can afford it will likely use distro kernels anyway > due to the added support they paid for.
True; but sometimes people have desires to run the same/similar kernel versions on all their systems and/or use some patches without having to have versions for all systems.
> > Linux on ARM, MIPS and PPC also has a healthy band of > > productive (commercial and home) users. > > Russell has done a great job at keeping ARM up to date in 2.5, > as have the PPC folks. For the most part, the archs aren't that > out of sync. (Insert comedy remark here about m68k being more > up to date than alpha).
Indeed - (Alpha is actually one of the few non-x86 architectures that actually built fully for me in a recent 2.5.x - and made a passable attempt at booting)
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