Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> 2.2 and 2.4 kernels will not be part of etch. They will be removed from the > installer and there will no be (official) kernel/linux images in etch. We > discussed this here a while ago, and we decided to drop 2.2. and 2.4 from > d-i to make arch requalification possible again, and d-i developement, a > little easier. This means, unless you have an Amiga or a Mac Q840AV, you > need to install sarge and upgrade from there. I guess that would make it the most important reason right now for better kernel support. :) > Dropping support for 2.2/2.4 from glibc is something else, though. But > without TLS, whatever that is, we will be kicked out again as soon as etch > is released... Thread-local storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage We need support for the __thread keyword, which requires support from gcc/binutils. bye, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
