I am a PowerPC tester and I object. Personally, I want the fastest solution
available for single processor G3's and G4's. There are only G5 desktops, no
desktops, and with today's users preferring laptops, more people are more
likely to spend time and effort getting a G4 laptop to work than a G5 desktop.
That said, if I was project manager, I'd say dump the non-smp version and get
the updated smp kernel builds into the hands of the testers.
If it doesn't work on non-smp PPC computers, the testers will be the first to
tell us.
Sincerely,
Paul Gorski
-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com>
To: Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com>
Cc: lubuntu-qa <lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net>
Sent: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 4:06 pm
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: [RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor
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 <leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com>
Date: 14 March 2012 18:01
Subject: Re: [RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor
To: Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com>
Cc: kernel-team <kernel-t...@lists.ubuntu.com>,
lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel
<ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com>
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
[cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
>
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