Re: Linux 2.6 on AMD Alchemy Au1500

[Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tnt.com>]

> > > Ok. Is it available on some CVS / www page ?
> > > If we eventually choose Au1500 as platform I may be able to test it as 
> > > well and bug reports.
> > >      
> > No yet, but I'll email it to the mailing list in the next couple of
> > days. I would consider it Beta.
> >
> >    
Ok, anyway I don't yet have a board ...

> > Just curious, why 2.6? 2.4 is solid, everything works, provides a mature
> > kernel and drivers ...?
> >    
> Because in the not too far future the Linux community will largely run
> away from 2.4?  In fact the motivation of many developers to continue
> with 2.4 is quite down already and Marcelo is going to put 2.4 into
> deep freeze after 2.4.25.
>
>  
Yes that's one of my main reason. And by the time the products ships to 
customers it will be tested. I think that one more person testing it is 
one more person able to find/debug problems.
There are also some features that are natively in 2.6 and requires 
external patches / drivers in a 2.4 series kernel ( ipsec, preemption, 
alsa, ... )

Sylvain Munaut