From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269649AbTGJX6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:58:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269686AbTGJX6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:58:12 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:51918 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269649AbTGJX6G (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:58:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.75 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. It's purely a matter of priorities. The only architecture that really _has_ to be stable is x86. Others are determined largely by whether they get their own testing done, and companies and individuals being willing to put the resources down. Linus