From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can we please have a major fork of Linux into a modern and legacy versions ?
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 19:59:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXS49NPio5oLPvit@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZWJm-6elPNNtbNI5@mit.edu>
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Hi!
> > I hear Linux is going to drop a lot of legacy devices including the
> > ones dropped already. I am wondering if we can please have a major
> > fork of Linux into a modern and legacy versions ?
> >
> > With a consolidation and security updates to the older version.
>
> If someone wants to take an LTS kernel and volunteer to maintain it,
> including cherrypicking security updates, and making sure that fixes
> in core subsystems don't cause some of these legacy drivers to break,
> anyone can create such a fork.
CIP project is maintaining 4.4 and 4.19 kernels, and will do so for
... few more years. Our trees are here:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/
Best regards,
Pavel
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-25 20:30 Can we please have a major fork of Linux into a modern and legacy versions ? Aaron Gray
2023-11-25 21:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-12-09 18:59 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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