Hi, On Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 21:57:49 +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 21:42, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > > From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 > > Would it be possible to, instead, release with kernel 2.6.33? > > I see at least two improvements from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 that will matter > a lot to certain subsets of users: > > * The TRIM command has been included in the block layer, allowing > efficient long-term use of SSD drives. > > * EDAC on the amd64 platform has had many fixes, allowing monitoring > and control of EEC ram. Pre-2.6.33 kernels don't support EDAC at all > on many common systems.
* MIPS subarch octeon got added. ... There are always good points to go for newer kernels. On the other hand, 2.6.32 will get long-term support and most other distributions will also ship 2.6.32 kernels, which makes eg. security support much easier. Greetings Martin PS: My personal opinion? I would really like to see octeon support for Debian Squeeze... ;-) -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster Public key http://zobel.ftbfs.de/5d64f870.asc - KeyID: 5D64 F870 GPG Fingerprint: 5DB3 1301 375A A50F 07E7 302F 493E FB8E 5D64 F870 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100314215125.gi23...@ftbfs.de
