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From: Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:02:44
Message-Id: F3E45C5C-8599-456E-AD00-57AD5467CF9C@gentoo.org
1 hello all. i would like to propose that we officially drop support
2 for 2.4 kernel profiles (especially default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4).
3 over the last few months it has been increasingly difficult to keep
4 2.4 systems up to date. here are some bugs i filed recently
5 discussing this:
6
7 http://bugs.gentoo.org/174697
8 unmask linux-headers-2.6 on 2.4 profiles
9 (eix 0.8.8 compile failure)
10
11 http://bugs.gentoo.org/154018
12 alsa-driver-1.0.13 fails compile on hardened-2.4 and vanilla-sources
13
14 http://bugs.gentoo.org/177357
15 media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc2-r1 compile failure
16
17
18 thoughts from the arch teams?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4 Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4 Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o>