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End of 2.4 for x86-64

End of 2.4 for x86-64

Posted Apr 16, 2004 4:05 UTC (Fri) by komarek (guest, #7295)
Parent article: Kernel release status

Bugger! We're stuck with 2.4 for our Opterons. We're required to keep AFS working, and the AFS maintainers aren't very interested in 2.6. The AFS stuff on 2.6 is read-only. I can only hope that we don't need any of the stuff that will be 2.6 only.

-Paul Komarek


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End of 2.4 for x86-64

Posted Apr 20, 2004 15:32 UTC (Tue) by riel (subscriber, #3142) [Link]

The distributions (in particular RHEL and SLES) will be maintaining 2.4 kernels for Opteron for another few years. Not having further development in the mainline kernel is certainly an inconvenience, but shouldn't be a disaster for users.

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