From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20040810055826.96344.qmail@web15604.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:58:26 +0800 (CST) From: Song Sam Subject: Re: 2.4 versus 2.6 patches To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list In-Reply-To: <20040809132828.GC5733@logos.cnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Marcelo Tosatti wrote£º > I think what David means is that v2.6 is the new platform where all > development effort is being done. Most of its core code, in general, > is much cleaner than v2.4. Thanks for your insight on 2.6 nice characters. > I disagree with him when he says "v2.4 is dead" (I coudlnt otherwise > :)), because its still maintained and will be for years. And its still > in use by a lot of folks. Yeah,I am so happy to see v2.4 is still supported officially.2.4.27 was released a couple of days ago.So mother tree is alive but ppc child tree was dead. I wonder if I have a patch vs 2.4 branch on ppc,could I send to Marcelo Tosatti directly? > But his point is that new development efforts should be based on the > new, shiny, improved v2.6 kernel, since that is where all development > is focused at. And as time passes, v2.4 will get more and more > obsolete. I am looking forward to seeing the day coming. :-) > Unfortunately for 8xx users, as noted by other people on this thread, > v2.6 is not yet 100% (wish it was, I'm myself trying to get our boards > to boot v2.6). Could you make it? I once booted v2.6 on RPXlite DW via ramdisk root file system but failed via NFS. Best regards, Sam ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/