[gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4

[gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4

[Rajiv Aaron Manglani]

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hello all. i would like to propose that we officially drop support  
for 2.4 kernel profiles (especially default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4).  
over the last few months it has been increasingly difficult to keep  
2.4 systems up to date. here are some bugs i filed recently  
discussing this:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/174697
unmask linux-headers-2.6 on 2.4 profiles
(eix 0.8.8 compile failure)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/154018
alsa-driver-1.0.13 fails compile on hardened-2.4 and vanilla-sources

http://bugs.gentoo.org/177357
media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc2-r1 compile failure


thoughts from the arch teams?



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Re: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4

[Josh Saddler]

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Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
> 
> hello all. i would like to propose that we officially drop support for
> 2.4 kernel profiles (especially default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4). over the
> last few months it has been increasingly difficult to keep 2.4 systems
> up to date.

vanilla-sources is the only place to find a 2.4 kernel on some arches,
though at least using those sources is no longer supported (as DSD and
the kernel team told me some months back.)

From the docs perspective, I'd like it if all 2.4 profiles for any
remaining arches were marked unsupported as well. I spoke with the arch
teams around the 2007.0 release time when I was updating the handbooks
to remove almost all 2.4 references, but there are still a few in there
for things like sparc-sources. AFAIK that's the only arch that still has
a 2.4 kernel available.

Any chance of seeing it all go away so I can finally clean up *all* 2.4
references?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] please drop support for 2.4

[Gustavo Zacarias]

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Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:

> hello all. i would like to propose that we officially drop support for
> 2.4 kernel profiles (especially default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4). over the
> last few months it has been increasingly difficult to keep 2.4 systems
> up to date. here are some bugs i filed recently discussing this:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/174697
> unmask linux-headers-2.6 on 2.4 profiles
> (eix 0.8.8 compile failure)
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/154018
> alsa-driver-1.0.13 fails compile on hardened-2.4 and vanilla-sources
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/177357
> media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc2-r1 compile failure
> 
> 
> thoughts from the arch teams?

It's in the pipe for SPARC, probably by the 2007.1 release.
2007.0 no longer supports 2.4, only 2006.1 does.

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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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