From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88033679FF for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 00:36:45 +1000 (EST) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id e2so359185ugf for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 07:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82ecf08e0605120729l43041aebuaef375a568700354@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:29:37 -0300 From: "Thiago Galesi" To: "Srinivas Murthy" Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4 In-Reply-To: <7cb1293c0605112351y658460a0x8b793ea12004dbfc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <7cb1293c0605112351y658460a0x8b793ea12004dbfc@mail.gmail.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > 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? Not much. This article is almost one year old. Even though some things do apply (like bigger footprint, etc), the kernel improved a lot on the months that followed that article. I've participated in a project that used a (somewhat patched) 2.6.10 kernel, with soccessful results. Not the mention the advantages of the 2.6 kernel in general. >The main open question is: is somebody still maintaining the 8xx kernel >port ? LINUX FOR POWERPC EMBEDDED PPC8XX P: Marcelo Tosatti S: Maintained (this has been determined AFAIK in OLS 2005)