Hi, I sent some mail to the author of the Tecra kernel patch, Jens Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and he replies thus:
> Philip Hands wrote: > > One thing that I thought you might be interested in is that for a while > > during testing, the kernel patch was included on the soon to be released > > Debian (1.3) boot disk. > > Yes, someone told me that. > > > This has now been removed, because it caused a number of non-tecra users > > problems. Some of them were unable to boot. > > That's bad news. I will refrain from submitting the patch to Linus in > the current form then. > Could you please elaborate on which setup these people used? > I would be glad to get in contact with one of these for testing > further patches. > > Jens. So could anyone who experienced the problem with this patch, please contact either me or Jens with details of what hardware it happened on, and maybe we can come up with a patch that works for everyone. The problem the patch was causing was described by Dale Scheetz as: > I gets to the point just before "uncompressing kernel" and locks with the > error: A20 gating failure. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
