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BlueLightning — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:07:27 +0000

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.

All those PXAs look alike

corbet — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:33:32 +0000

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.

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wildea01 — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:28:19 +0000

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

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nevets — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:50:21 +0000

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?

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BlueLightning — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:32:58 +0000

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...

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mjg59 — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:49:01 +0000

No, it's been possible to do runtime power management of PCI devices for a long time. The problem with GPUs is the higher layers, not the lower ones.

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pabs — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:20:56 +0000

It is mentioned in the article:

"support for the venerable 386 architecture has been removed"

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mathstuf — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:00:45 +0000

> The devfreq subsystem now supports devices that can be suspended (or placed into an idle state) independently of the rest of the system.

Does this mean that we'll have better video card power management (especially with dual video card laptops) given some code from their end?

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yokem_55 — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:45:17 +0000

It probably came up too late for this article, but some really sadomasochistic folks will be disappointed in the 3.8 kernel as i386 support is no more....