On 03/14/2012 11:52 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > Hi All, > > The Ubuntu Kernel Team has been evaluating some of the current > maintenance burdens for the upcoming Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS release. > One area which would reduce the maintenance costs would be to drop the > non-smp PowerPC kernel flavor. There are currently three PowerPC > flavors: > > * non-smp (linux-image-powerpc) > * smp (linux-image-powerpc-smp) > * smp-64 (linux-image-powerpc64-smp) > > Even though PowerPC is a community maintained port [1], the PowerPC > kernels are still generated along side the officially supported distro > kernels. Taking that into consideration, every PowerPC flavor takes > ~2hrs to build, ie. ~6hrs for all three flavors. Given the number of > official builds and test builds that are performed over the life of the > LTS, this equates to a significant amount of time. > > We would thus like to propose dropping the non-smp PowerPC kernel > flavor. Doing so would also require the installer to be updated, hence > CC'ing Colin Watson. We'd like to drop this as soon as possible, in > time for Beta-2 would be ideal. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Leann Ogasawara > > [1] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-February/000098.html > > What's the impact on supported PowerPC hardware?
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