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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If I understand right, smp is compatible with the same hardware than
non-smp, with a very little performance impact. So I can't see any
problem if they drop the non-smp flavour.

If nobody have concern in the PPC tester community, let's them drop
this. I think they know what they are doing in this case :)

Regards,
Julien Lavergne


Le 03/15/2012 09:38 PM, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
> hi guys,
>
> you will know better what kernels you need :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Leann Ogasawara* <leann.ogasawara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:leann.ogasawara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: 14 March 2012 18:01
> Subject: Re: [RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor
> To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> Cc: kernel-team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>, lubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ubuntu-devel
> <ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>
> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 17:00 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:52:01AM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> > > The Ubuntu Kernel Team has been evaluating some of the current
> > > maintenance burdens for the upcoming Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS
> release.
> > > One area which would reduce the maintenance costs would be to drop the
> > > non-smp PowerPC kernel flavor.  There are currently three PowerPC
> > > flavors:
> >
> > Making the associated installer changes shouldn't be a big deal, but I
> > suggest you ask the Xubuntu and Lubuntu communities about this since a
> > good proportion of powerpc users are there.
>
> Adding lubuntu-users and Julien Lavergne to the discussion to get their
> feedback regarding the impact on Lubuntu users.
>
> As Micah noted, Xubuntu stopped producing PowerPC images due to a lack
> of testers.
>
> > >  * non-smp (linux-image-powerpc)
> > >  * smp (linux-image-powerpc-smp)
> > >  * smp-64 (linux-image-powerpc64-smp)
> >
> > It's not clear to me whether it would make more sense to drop -powerpc
> > or -powerpc-smp.  My memory is that -powerpc-smp was significantly less
> > used and would be a better candidate for removal.  Do you have notes on
> > which hardware is covered by -powerpc-smp that can't use -powerpc64-smp?
> >
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> > Colin Watson                                      
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> >
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