Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4 >> pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-bf2.4
> So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being > (co?)maintained by Herbert to keep them in sync with the other kernels? I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 boot floppies on i386. So far, the only reasons I've seen are: 1. Support for new hardware. Without initrd, you can include only so many hardware drivers. And for all of the important drivers that I can think of (such as NetGear FA311TX, AICRAID, Promise Ultra IDE etc.), the support is already in at least one of the latest 2.2 images anyway. 2. Support for ext3/reiserfs. IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care about whether we support it or not. In any case, there is a 2.2 flavour available. Ext3 does not need boot floppies support. Conversion after installation of a 2.4 kernel is trivial. 3. Better support for auxiliary hardware such as sound cards. A 2.4 kernel is only an apt-get install away so this has no place when we are talking about boot floppies. If there is another important reason for a 2.4 kernel, please let me know. Otherwise IMHO this really is unnecessary. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
