On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Colin Walters > > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use > | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already > | included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-image-preempt > | package or something that debian desktop can have installed by default. > > Nobody has even begun thinking about getting d-i to work with 2.5/2.6. > Until that is tested and works this won't fly at all. (Yes, this is a > ?somebody, please step forward and test/fix d-i with 2.5/2.6?)
How much is broken with 2.5 right now? Could someone who's familiar with the issues give an approximation as to how much work it would take to adapt d-i to 2.5? In addition, why does d-i have to run 2.6 at all? Couldn't it run 2.4, and install a 2.6 kernel for normal use for those that want it? - David
