[SM-Discuss] linux-2.4

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Thu Feb 26 19:39:49 EST 2009


Quoting Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum at orgis.org>:

> Am Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:45:17 +0100
> schrieb Treeve Jelbert <treeve at scarlet.be>:
>
>> Is it time to drop support for linux-2.4.x?
>> No other major distribution bothers with it now.
>> Possibly move it into an unsupported branch?
>
> linux-2.4 on SMGL is at best extremely untested, and thus by  
> definition broken.
> Unless of course, someone using a 2.4 kernel speaks up.
> We keep the possibility to _not_ use udev and hal; 2.4 lovers can  
> then still install the kernel themselves (like several people do  
> with their regular 2.6 kernels anyway).

Except part of the point is to cleanup glibc, without the 2.4 check in  
there a 2.4 kernel user won't be able to use our glibc, and so there  
should be *no* need to provide any non-2.6 features.

'course, udev and hal are optional for 2.6 anyways, so we just keep it  
that way. ;)

I'm all for removing 2.4 support, though in the past I had wanted to  
keep it, I'm now leaning the other way. ;)

-sandalle

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