[SM-Discuss] linux-2.4

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Fri Feb 27 05:10:39 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:39:49PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> 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. ;)

I agree. It's been several years since 2.6.0 came out, and I can't think
of any reason to still use 2.4.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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