On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 2/12/2014 at 04:29 AM, Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > > > Keeping the 31 bit kernel support adds extra maintenance and development > > effort which we do not want to spend anymore, especially since the effort > > seems to be quite pointless, since nobody uses (and tests) the 31 bit > > kernel. > > The other option is for IBM to give up maintainership of that part of the > code. There might be someone else out there that is interested in providing > support for shops that aren't running newer hardware.
The question is rather if there really is anybody who uses both old hardware and new kernels? If not, I don't see a valid reason to keep the old code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
