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Subject: Re: Status of Linux 2.6 for 40x and 44x CPUs
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=46rom the looks of the benchmarks described here:

http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/Know/Linux24vs26

and the results are basically confirmed here:

http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html

there are good reasons to avoid using the 2.6 kernel.  Frankly, I'm surpris=
ed=20
and would have thought that the changes in the scheduler would have brought=
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improvements, as did the report here:

http://www.lynuxworks.com/corporate/news/2004/linux-kernel-2.6.php

But it looks like the major improvements are in filesystem performance, so =
for=20
embedded use, 2.4 will be around for quite a while.