3.8 Merge window part 1

Posted Dec 13, 2012 11:32 UTC (Thu) by BlueLightning (subscriber, #38978)
Parent article: 3.8 Merge window part 1

Also removed is support for the Intel PXA2xx/PXA3xx architectures on the assumption that nobody will miss it

What?! Is there a link to some more information/discussion about this because I'd certainly miss it...

3.8 Merge window part 1

Posted Dec 13, 2012 13:50 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link] (1 responses)

Do you actually own any of that hardware? Are you using the last Linux on that hardware?

Or are you just missing it because you're nostalgic?

3.8 Merge window part 1

Posted Dec 13, 2012 15:07 UTC (Thu) by BlueLightning (subscriber, #38978) [Link]

Yes, sort of and yes :)

I'm the maintainer of the support for Zaurus, iPAQ and other similar era devices (yeah, I know) in OpenEmbedded. After a while if you want to be able to build an up-to-date user space you need to be able to build an up-to-date kernel, and given that we're only now getting to a reasonable level of support in mainline for some of these devices I would hope that we can expect that support to stay there for a reasonable length of time.

3.8 Merge window part 1

Posted Dec 13, 2012 14:28 UTC (Thu) by wildea01 (subscriber, #71011) [Link] (1 responses)

Unless I'm mistaken, this must be a mistake. PXA95x has been removed, but 27X and 3XX look alive and well in mainline.

All those PXAs look alike

Posted Dec 13, 2012 14:33 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I don't quite know how I managed that one but yes, it was a mistake. PXA95x is gone, the others remain. Article corrected, apologies for the screwup.