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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: James Mcloughlin <jimbob@osoffice.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: kernel patch set - please read
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:42:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060314124222.GA7514@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140.81.178.12.23.1142280938.squirrel@www.osoffice.co.uk>

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:15:38PM -0000, James Mcloughlin wrote:
> People realise that these old boxes are still good for hosting, as you
> dont need a super 3ghz server for a few small web sites...
> 
> I wonder if you would consider adding cobalt hardware support to the 2.6
> kernel tree?

Its up to someone who has the hardware to merge any additional hardware support
that is needed and maintain it. If you are building your own trees to do this
and having to add other GPL drivers then you might be ideally placed to do that.

Alan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-14 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 20:15 kernel patch set - please read James Mcloughlin
2006-03-13 21:00 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-14 12:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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