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Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:51 -0700, Srinivas Murthy wrote:
> Hi,
>  Wolfgang Denk has a good listing of issues to consider betn linux 2.4
> vs 2.6 for ppc82xx based platforms
> (http://www.denx.de/wiki/Know/Linux24vs26).
>  
>  Would this recommendation still hold?
>  
>  Are there any patches, developments in this area?

The main open question is: is somebody still maintaining the 8xx kernel
port ?

Ben.