Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266590AbTGKAlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:41:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269709AbTGKAlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:41:09 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:62414 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266590AbTGKAlH (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:41:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16142.2842.795232.351128@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:55:54 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.75 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.16 under Emacs 21.3.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 32 Linus Torvalds writes: > On 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > > > > Also, the only real point of a stable release is for distribution makers. > > > That pretty much cuts the list of "needs to be supported" down to x86, > > > ia64, x86-64 and possibly sparc/alpha. > > > > No ppc, ppc64, s390? > > Do we have distributions that intend to make releases using those? I > suspect not, but hey, don't get me wrong: I'd love to see them working > out-of-the-box. SuSE has a ppc64 version of their enterprise server edition and I think they include ppc32 kernels too. Terrasoft does a distribution aimed at powermac users. Mandrake and Gentoo have ppc versions of their distributions. And of course there is Debian/PPC, which is what I use. I think ppc and ppc64 have well and truly eclipsed alpha and sparc, in terms of the size of the market for distributions, by now. In fact ppc and ppc64 are in pretty good shape in your tree as far as the desktop and server machines are concerned. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/