Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2 | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:42:44 +0100 (BST) |
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Cort Dougan writes: > I've had to create a 2.5 for the PPC tree so we aren't stuck with either no > experimentation or experimentation in the stable trees.
Well, you're not alone. There's a lot going on in the ARM side of Linux which looks very promising; yes it is true that ARM is not the fastest or the most optimal processor that Linux runs on, but there is a lot of people who want to run it, both from the individual and the commercial circles.
As such, the ARM hardware that Linux now runs on is, ahem, quite varied, and new hardware is coming along at an astounding rate - currently its about one a week for the past 4 months (looking at the rate at which the requests for architecture numbers come into my automated system).
So yes, you can say that I'm probably in the same boat as you are as an architecture maintainer, albeit I've currently got a little more room to move for the time being.
Maybe someone ought to kick off a 2.5 kernel series now, so that there's somewhere for all these features to go (and I don't mean a private 2.5 tree). This can then be handed (maybe piecemeal) to Linus? Maybe we can use a version number like 2.5.0-u1 upwards? (u for unofficial, or maybe even "unoff")?
The only problem I can see with this (which I believe has been aired before) is that it will detract from the bug fixing exercise for 2.4, since people will be more interested in the new features of 2.5 rather than the bugs with 2.4, but then again, I'd like to be proven wrong. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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