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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: bluey on February 07, 2004, 09:49:02 am

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: bluey on February 07, 2004, 09:49:02 am

Some stuff at LinuxDevices.com about the new stable linux kernel:
Migrating to Linux kernel 2.6 (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3855888078.html)

Linux kernel 2.6 arrives in embedded (http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9430710378.html)


Have a wonderful day!

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: slocaus on February 07, 2004, 02:34:12 pm

I\'m for it, it is sweeeeeet on my desktop.  I\'m at 2.6.2 on it.

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: Mickeyl on February 07, 2004, 02:43:46 pm

It\'s not a matter of that the Zaurus community doesn\'t _want_ to go to 2.6, it\'s just that noone has the motivation to do it... I outlined the possible route in various postings to openzaurus-devel, in different forums and on the OOO newsletter - the OpenZaurus team even has a number of things which have been ported to 2.5 since over a year, but... it\'s the lack of poeple interested in doing kernel work which matters.

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: lardman on February 08, 2004, 11:07:46 am

I\'m interested but seem to be unable.


Si

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: Anonymous on February 08, 2004, 02:00:55 pm

The 2.6 kernel is reported to have awful performance on low-memory machines.  (sadly, 64 megs is consdiered low memory these days, 32 even worse) See various discussion on the LKML for details.  A port might be premature until these issues are worked out.

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: Mickeyl on February 08, 2004, 07:23:16 pm

How low must it be to affect performance? I have seen a kernel 2.6 on my SIMpad (64MB Ram) performing much better than kernel 2.4 on the same device.

Title: Lets go to 2.6 ;)
Post by: Sudonix on February 08, 2004, 08:07:51 pm

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How low must it be to affect performance? I have seen a kernel 2.6 on my SIMpad (64MB Ram) performing much better than kernel 2.4 on the same device.

Although just x86, I have used 2.6.0 on a 120MHz/48M, SCSI drives and it did work quite a bit faster(I mean, Gnome/KDE without much trouble