On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:52:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:10, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > I am currently setting up a documentation to use the official Debian > > Installer with the official Debian kernels on that machine. Once done, > > I will put a link on the Debian Wiki. > > OK, so that is targeted at supporting Etch?
Sure, it works well. At least, better than in -486 flavour. There is a kernel optimisation for VIA C3/C7 processors which is disabled by default in the Debian kernel package. I will have a look whether it is fine or not with other 686 machines to activate it... > > By default, only the -486 subarch is available at most, because > > /proc/cpuinfo is different from other x86 machines, i.e. neither > > AMD nor Intel... Therefore, I did a patch to get the -686 subarch > > available on that distinct hardware with all the flavours, e.g. xen, > > vserver, xen+vserver. > > I have asked myself a little bit if it really makes sense to support such > a very specific use case. As the patch is minimal and maintenance should > be negligible, I guess it does not do any harm. Well, it does no harm. The machine is a 686, it is a bit unsatisfying not to run the kernel as such. > > Please consider the attached patch against the current SVN. > > Thanks for providing the test case too. > Next time, please make sure your name is UTF-8 encoded in the changelog. $ wget "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/via-c7.patch?bug=410819;msg=5;att=1"; && file via* via-c7.patch?bug=410819;msg=5;att=1: UTF-8 Unicode text I am always unicode-enabled as you can see... Maybe an issue on your end? > Bonus points for marking the new changelog entry as UNRELEASED. Indeed. :) Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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