3.8 Merge window part 1

Posted Dec 13, 2012 13:50 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: 3.8 Merge window part 1 by BlueLightning
Parent article: 3.8 Merge window part 1

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.