On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Well... That isn't really what I said ;) What I said is that I don't > > > have time to actively maintain the PowerMac support in 2.4, that is make > > > it evolve & support newer machines. That doesn't mean that PPC will be > > > going away from 2.4 ;) > > > > I think the exact quote was that you are not going to support G5 on 2.4 > > forever. But anyway, a move to 2.6 should be salutable if all the > > linuxppc developers have much more interest for 2.6 trhan 2.4, and we > > will be saddled with this for the next 2 years probably, so ... > > Oh yes, G5 is another matter, it's not supported at all in 2.4 ;) The > fact that there is a very minimal support in 2.4 was done to help some > distro who had 2.4-only installers at one point, and definitely not meant > to be used after the install stage.
Yep, so if we move for G5, then we should as well move for the rest of them, and drop apus by the way. > Also, I don't intend to support the 32 bits kernel on them for long neither, > G5s should really run a 64 bits kernel even with a 32 bits userland. This will probably not be for sarge though, altough once i get some time again, i need to look into this again. At least a 64bit toolchain should be easily obtainable now. Friendly, Sven Luther
