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by yjftsjthsd-h
178 days ago
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> I'm curious though, if someone has an ancient/niche architecture, what's the benefit of wanting newer kernels to the point where it'd be a concern for development? Wanting big fixes (including security fixes, because old machines can still be networked) and feature improvements, just like anyone else? > I presume that outside of devices and drivers, there's little to no new developments in those architectures. There's also core/shared features. I could very easily imagine somebody wanting eg. ebpf features to get more performance out of ancient hardware. > In which case, why don't the users/maintainers of those archs use a pre-6.1 kernel (IIRC when Rust was introduced) and backport what they need? Because backporting bits and pieces is both hard and especially hard to do reliably without creating more problems. |
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