On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:59 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > 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?
Jeremy Kerr did some testing a while back and noted that the PowerPC smp flavor should run on non-smp hardware, but did acknowledge there could be a slight performance degradation. Jeremy, do you still have the data available? Thanks, Leann -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
