As far as I can tell, it's because Kaloz owns the x86 architecture as a whole, 
but he's not particularly active.

-Philip


On 4/19/12 6:21 AM, Adam Gensler wrote:
> I see that a number of targets were recently bumped up to kernel 3.2.15, 
> including the x86 subtargets like the alix and geos. However, the 
> generic x86 target remains on 2.6.39:
> 
> adam@openwrt-builder:~/Desktop/openwrt/trunk$ cat target/linux/x86/Makefile
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2006-2011 OpenWrt.org
> #
> # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
> # See /LICENSE for more information.
> #
> include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
> 
> ARCH:=i386
> BOARD:=x86
> BOARDNAME:=x86
> FEATURES:=squashfs jffs2 ext4 vdi vmdk pcmcia targz
> SUBTARGETS=generic olpc xen_domu ep80579 net5501 kvm_guest geos alix2 
> thincan
> 
> LINUX_VERSION:=2.6.39.4
> 
> include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/target.mk
> 
> $(eval $(call BuildTarget))
> 
> $(eval $(call $(if 
> $(CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_ISO),RequireCommand,Ignore),mkisofs, \
>       Please install mkisofs. \
> ))
> 
> Is there a reason for keeping the generic target so far back on a dead 
> kernel version?
> 
> Best regards,
> Adam
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