On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:22:04AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Call me a chicken, but I still think it will be less work to just fix the > > issues in the kernel and use the existing stuff instead. > > That's the whole issue. I am under the impression (perhaps wrongfully) > that Linux development is moving at a high pace, not considering support > of "legacy" hardware as a high priority. For instance, the first 2.6 > releases introduced significant regressions wrt. SPARC32 support > compared to 2.4. Only now is 2.6 starting to catch up with 2.4, thanks > to the work of a few people. >
That's wrong. The Linux kernel development works the same way as Debian. If some persons are working on a port, it is supported. If not it is not supported. It does not depend on the fact the hardware is old or not. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
