On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 03:51, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Well, nobody seemed to care or comment on this, so let's take this to a > > wider audience. > > > > Christoph has recently told me that he doesn't care about 2.4, and even > > benh has mentioned to me that 2.4 support for powerpc will be going away > > in the near term (well, not the eact words, but you get my meaning). And > > i guess that Jens also is only interested on 2.6 kernels, even though he > > is comaintainer of the 2.4 kernels too. > > 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 ... Friendly, Sven Luther
