FW: 2.4.x compile on SPARC?

From: Witvliet, Hans (Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 23:21:55 PDT

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From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:21:55 +0200
Subject: FW: 2.4.x compile on SPARC?

    Just from the debian-sparc-list........

    I guess if the statement came from "guru" David Miller himself, it is quit
    official, as he 's the one who maintained sparc for a very long time.....
    Hope a new maintainer can be found real soon (Jakub Jelinek, Jim Mintha,
    Pieter Krul......?????) before serious bitrot will occur.
    BTW, who else could afford to spent that much time, to me it looks like
    almost a verious serious commitment.
    Not just considering the needed experience, but also in other requirements
    like hardware and much, very much time.
    Hans
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Erik Mouw [SMTP:J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl]
    > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:14 AM
    > To: Marco Gaiarin
    > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
    > Subject: Re: 2.4.x compile on SPARC?
    >
    > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:52:10AM +0200, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
    > > Mandi! Erik Mouw
    > > In chel di` si favelave...
    > >
    > > > Linux-2.4.x is currently broken for Sparc32 because it doesn't have
    > > > a maintainer. Please use linux-2.2.x.
    > >
    > > Uh. This is ``official''?!
    >
    > Well, that's what Dave Miller says on the linux-kernel mailing list:
    >
    >
    > From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
    > To: Rafael Diniz <rafael2k@terra.com.br>
    > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    > Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:32:20 -0700 (PDT)
    > Subject: Re: kernel 2.4 doesn't work in Sparc IPX
    >
    > Rafael Diniz writes:
    > > Why kernel 2.4 doesn't work in Sparcs IPX?
    > > It's a good machine and I want to continue to use Linux on it...
    >
    > So please continue to use 2.2.x kernels until we get someone
    > to maintain the sun4c port in 2.4.x.
    >
    > Later,
    > David S. Miller
    > davem@redhat.com
    >
    >
    > I'd call that quite official :)
    >
    >
    >
    > Erik
    >
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