On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:23:18PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > But how many of the in-the-field systems are still being updated > with the latest kernels? I know there are a few die-hards determined > to use their BigSur boxes until they eventually fail. But this > does tell me that I should be looking at a much longer timescale > to drop this. A new Madison box bought today should be usable > for some years to come. Just for clarity, what platforms would be affected by this? I thought the non-free software was needed for Montecito+, and that Madison worked fine w/o it. My vote is not to drop the "free" kernel support, though I'm also not offering to take over maintenance so it probably doesn't count for much. -- dann frazier - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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