If I understand right, smp is compatible with the same hardware than non-smp, with a very little performance impact. So I can't see any problem if they drop the non-smp flavour.
If nobody have concern in the PPC tester community, let's them drop this. I think they know what they are doing in this case :) Regards, Julien Lavergne Le 03/15/2012 09:38 PM, Phill Whiteside a écrit : > hi guys, > > you will know better what kernels you need :) > > Regards, > > Phill. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Leann Ogasawara* <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: 14 March 2012 18:01 > Subject: Re: [RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor > To: Colin Watson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: kernel-team <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>, ubuntu-devel > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 17:00 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:52:01AM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > > > The Ubuntu Kernel Team has been evaluating some of the current > > > maintenance burdens for the upcoming Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS > release. > > > One area which would reduce the maintenance costs would be to drop the > > > non-smp PowerPC kernel flavor. There are currently three PowerPC > > > flavors: > > > > Making the associated installer changes shouldn't be a big deal, but I > > suggest you ask the Xubuntu and Lubuntu communities about this since a > > good proportion of powerpc users are there. > > Adding lubuntu-users and Julien Lavergne to the discussion to get their > feedback regarding the impact on Lubuntu users. > > As Micah noted, Xubuntu stopped producing PowerPC images due to a lack > of testers. > > > > * non-smp (linux-image-powerpc) > > > * smp (linux-image-powerpc-smp) > > > * smp-64 (linux-image-powerpc64-smp) > > > > It's not clear to me whether it would make more sense to drop -powerpc > > or -powerpc-smp. My memory is that -powerpc-smp was significantly less > > used and would be a better candidate for removal. Do you have notes on > > which hardware is covered by -powerpc-smp that can't use -powerpc64-smp? > > > > -- > > Colin Watson > [[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] > > > > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >
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