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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.75
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:55:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16142.2842.795232.351128@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307101709360.5091-100000@home.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

> On 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030710223548.A20214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307101512350.4757-100000@home.osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-07-10 23:55   ` Linux 2.5.75 Andi Kleen
2003-07-11  0:12     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-11  0:55       ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2003-07-11  8:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11 10:27         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-11 10:39           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11 16:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-11 17:03             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-12 19:20               ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-12 23:17                 ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <7TEe.Bz.21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <7TNS.Kc.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-11 21:33   ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-07-10 21:14 Linus Torvalds
2003-07-10 21:35 ` Russell King
2003-07-10 22:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-10 23:05     ` Russell King
2003-07-10 23:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-11 19:59       ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-10 23:30 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-10 23:38   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-10 23:46     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-10 23:40   ` Robert Love
2003-07-11  0:24     ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-11  0:49       ` Wade
2003-07-11  7:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-07-11 15:46 ` Oliver Pitzeier

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