Ok from my many tests on seeing if di will work with 2.6, it seems to show negative without some major changes. First discover1 will NOT work with 2.6 Devfs support in 2.6 has been obsoleted and is often broken. Module-init-tools will need to be merged with busybox. Renaming scheme would be required.. You would need to change the standard commands modprobe and etc to suffix their suite. For example modprobe to modprobe.modutils. 2.6 yet more featureful can not support the many things 2.4 is currently doing. Besides devfs, it will need a complete fix for the modules packaging. Starting by fixing all module names to their newly renamed ones with the new suffix .ko. Not too much rootskel work would be required. But devfs and discover must be changed to make it work. The only way at this moment in time you could make a 2.6 kernel disc is by making a seperate cvs tree and removing devfs and put in udev, then replace discover1 with discover2 or kudzu. 2.6 would generally work well with Progeny's anaconda installer due to they are using kudzu, and aren't on space constraints. Also there is no in gods way you could fit a 2.6 kernel on a floppy with all the features you need. Same goes for the initrd, which would be humongous.
Dan Weber
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