Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:28:34 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? |
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:10:12AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Say, I've been having _smashing_ success with 2.5.x on the desktop and > on big fat highmem umpteen-way SMP (NUMA even!) boxen, and I was > wondering if you were considering 2.6.0-test* anytime soon.
There's still a boatload of drivers that don't compile, a metric shitload of bits that never came over from 2.4 after I stopped doing it circa 2.4.18, a lot of little 'trivial' patches that got left by the wayside, and a load of 'strange' bits that still need nailing down (personally, I have two boxes that won't boot a 2.5 kernel currently (One was pnpbios related, other needs more investigation), and another that falls on its face after 10 minutes idle uptime. My p4-ht desktop box is the only one that runs 2.5 without any problems.
I think we're a way off from a '2.6-test' phase personally, but instigating a harder 'code freeze' would probably be a good thing to do[1]
Dave
[1] Exemption granted for the bits not yet brought forward of course.
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