#include <hallo.h> Herbert Xu wrote on Thu Jan 24, 2002 um 07:59:52PM:
> > 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? No. I allow to update the package and NMU if I do not respond for >=2 days, but Herbert should keep his hands of it. > I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 I can imagine that you will do, but then I worry about the future of the package. > 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. - This are patches - ide patched kernel is reported to hang on some new chipsets while IDE detection > 2. Support for ext3/reiserfs. > > IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care 2.4 uses reiserfs-3.6 as default, 2.2.20 does not (and apparently will never) support it. Imagine someone downloads the Debian stuff to a ReiserFS partition under SuSE/RedHat (where reiserfs-3.6 has been used for epochs) and tries to mount it. > Ext3 does not need boot floppies support. Conversion after installation > of a 2.4 kernel is trivial. Not providing an Ext3 option as-default would damage Debian's reputation. > 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 Blah. You should know better than me that this is not true. > If there is another important reason for a 2.4 kernel, please let me know. As you wish: - the 64MB detection limit, AFAIK this has been fixed in 2.4 - working Plug-and-Play. As someone in the list allready reported, we allways have a problem with isapnp cards. Do you want a clueless user to change to a second console and work with pnpdump and isapnp just to make the damn thing work? - network cards. You did include the natsemi driver - wow. But what about many other cards and new releases (such as for Tulip cards), which are not supported by 2.2.x? - new ide chipsets. 2.4 has more and and much stable drivers. - newer ISDN drivers. People installing with a (often sold) Fritc-PCIv2 card would "thank" us for using kernel-2.2.x. - newer USB network hardware is not supported by 2.2.20. Same for other possible installation media. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Letzte Worte des Computers: "Sind Sie sicher? (J/N)" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
