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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:31:15
Message-Id: 46A50E91.1030101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4 by Rajiv Aaron Manglani
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4 Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
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6 > hello all. i would like to propose that we officially drop support for
7 > 2.4 kernel profiles (especially default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4). over the
8 > last few months it has been increasingly difficult to keep 2.4 systems
9 > up to date. here are some bugs i filed recently discussing this:
10 >
11 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/174697
12 > unmask linux-headers-2.6 on 2.4 profiles
13 > (eix 0.8.8 compile failure)
14 >
15 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/154018
16 > alsa-driver-1.0.13 fails compile on hardened-2.4 and vanilla-sources
17 >
18 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/177357
19 > media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc2-r1 compile failure
20 >
21 >
22 > thoughts from the arch teams?
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24 It's in the pipe for SPARC, probably by the 2007.1 release.
25 2007.0 no longer supports 2.4, only 2006.1 does.
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28 Gustavo Zacarias
29 Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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