From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:47:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be ([IPv6:::ffff:130.104.233.21]:55535 "EHLO neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:47:16 +0000 Received: from 246tNt.com (21-6.CampusNet.ucl.ac.be [130.104.21.6]) by neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be (8.12.10/8.12.9/mp-2002.03.25) with ESMTP id i0SFkgfe004301 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:46:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4017D96F.2080202@246tNt.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:46:55 +0100 From: Sylvain Munaut User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 on AMD Alchemy Au1500 References: <4017927B.5080907@246tNt.com> <1075302354.16255.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4017D2D5.2050605@246tNt.com> <1075303379.16255.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040128153627.GB14580@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128153627.GB14580@linux-mips.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4169 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tnt@246tnt.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips >>>Ok. Is it available on some CVS / www page ? >>>If we eventually choose Au1500 as platform I may be able to test it as >>>well and bug reports. >>> >>> >>No yet, but I'll email it to the mailing list in the next couple of >>days. I would consider it Beta. >> >> >> Ok, anyway I don't yet have a board ... >>Just curious, why 2.6? 2.4 is solid, everything works, provides a mature >>kernel and drivers ...? >> >> > >Because in the not too far future the Linux community will largely run >away from 2.4? In fact the motivation of many developers to continue >with 2.4 is quite down already and Marcelo is going to put 2.4 into >deep freeze after 2.4.25. > > > Yes that's one of my main reason. And by the time the products ships to customers it will be tested. I think that one more person testing it is one more person able to find/debug problems. There are also some features that are natively in 2.6 and requires external patches / drivers in a 2.4 series kernel ( ipsec, preemption, alsa, ... ) Sylvain Munaut From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 246tNt.com (21-6.CampusNet.ucl.ac.be [130.104.21.6]) by neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be (8.12.10/8.12.9/mp-2002.03.25) with ESMTP id i0SFkgfe004301 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:46:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4017D96F.2080202@246tNt.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:46:55 +0100 From: Sylvain Munaut MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 on AMD Alchemy Au1500 References: <4017927B.5080907@246tNt.com> <1075302354.16255.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4017D2D5.2050605@246tNt.com> <1075303379.16255.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040128153627.GB14580@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128153627.GB14580@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Cc: Linux/MIPS Development Message-ID: <20040128154655.smd7Pf1hhNIXXvmP0uRKbFbUV_THjfN6qO0mPoj1FMM@z> >>>Ok. Is it available on some CVS / www page ? >>>If we eventually choose Au1500 as platform I may be able to test it as >>>well and bug reports. >>> >>> >>No yet, but I'll email it to the mailing list in the next couple of >>days. I would consider it Beta. >> >> >> Ok, anyway I don't yet have a board ... >>Just curious, why 2.6? 2.4 is solid, everything works, provides a mature >>kernel and drivers ...? >> >> > >Because in the not too far future the Linux community will largely run >away from 2.4? In fact the motivation of many developers to continue >with 2.4 is quite down already and Marcelo is going to put 2.4 into >deep freeze after 2.4.25. > > > Yes that's one of my main reason. And by the time the products ships to customers it will be tested. I think that one more person testing it is one more person able to find/debug problems. There are also some features that are natively in 2.6 and requires external patches / drivers in a 2.4 series kernel ( ipsec, preemption, alsa, ... ) Sylvain Munaut