Here's what all the arches are doing: x86: default profile is 2.6, alternative "2.4" profile is available ia64: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles amd64: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles ppc: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles ppc64: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles sparc: default profile is 2.4, no subprofiles mips: default profile is 2.4, no subprofiles hppa: default profile is 2.6, alternative "2.4" profile is available alpha: default profile is 2.6, alternative "2.4" profile is available s390: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles sh: not releasing 2005.0 arm: default profile is 2.6, no subprofiles For sparc and mips, 2.6 kernels are available, but do not require another profile. Sparc users have a default supported kernel of sparc-sources (2.4) but if they were to emerge vanilla-sources or gentoo-sources they would get 2.6. mips have the 2.6 packages in ~arch and will mark them stable when 2.4 will become deprecated for them x86 is the only profile which undergoes the 2.4 to 2.6 migration but other arch users might still be on 2.4 (namely hppa,alpha) who should probably migrate at the same time The profile documentation should mention how to change to the new default profiles, but should also reference the 2.4 subprofiles as not all users will want to migrate. It should link to the migration doc for those who are migrating. If you need it, more info can be found here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/kernel-2.6.htm
Current edited document online at http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo-upgrading.html (.xml, .patch).
x86-team: I looked at the "preview" version of the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/2005.0/ - kernel-version on the livecd and as an installable package changed from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 (both, vanilla and gentoo-dev-sources) - on the livecd, the keyboard selector will only come up when "F2" is pressed (this is not the way we want it, but the only way we can handle it at the moment).
x86 kernel 2.6.11.2
Created attachment 53224 [details, diff] patchbittorrent.patch
gentoo-upgrading committed. Thanks!
