The only Apple PowerPC machines that can use the 64-bit image are the G5's (but I believe they could also use the standard SMP one).
Honestly, I don't think we can really drop any of the kernels. Any dual processor machine is going to use the SMP kernel (and there's a lot of dual processor G4's out there...), and any single processor machine needs the non-smp kernel, right? So, wouldn't dropping any of them mean dropping support one of following: single processor machines, SMP support, or 64-bit support. I guess if you HAD to get rid of one, I'd argue for the 64 bit one. As I stated, only the G5's can use the 64 bit kernel... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leann Ogasawara" <[email protected]> To: "Colin Watson" <[email protected]> Cc: "kernel-team" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "ubuntu-devel" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:01:59 PM Subject: Re: [RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 17:00 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:52:01AM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > > 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: > > Making the associated installer changes shouldn't be a big deal, but I > suggest you ask the Xubuntu and Lubuntu communities about this since a > good proportion of powerpc users are there. Adding lubuntu-users and Julien Lavergne to the discussion to get their feedback regarding the impact on Lubuntu users. As Micah noted, Xubuntu stopped producing PowerPC images due to a lack of testers. > > * non-smp (linux-image-powerpc) > > * smp (linux-image-powerpc-smp) > > * smp-64 (linux-image-powerpc64-smp) > > It's not clear to me whether it would make more sense to drop -powerpc > or -powerpc-smp. My memory is that -powerpc-smp was significantly less > used and would be a better candidate for removal. Do you have notes on > which hardware is covered by -powerpc-smp that can't use -powerpc64-smp? > > -- > Colin Watson [[email protected]] > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
