On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Note that one thing I'm concerned about (and probably should've mentioned > in my original post) is ia64 and alpha; getting 2.6.8 into sarge will be > tight. Assume that i386 and powerpc will be thrown in w/ kernel-source, > as those happen pretty quick. However, ia64 and alpha will probably lag > behind by at least a few days.
I'm very interested in moving ia64 to 2.6.8, since that kernel should work out of the box on SGI's boxes. Normally I start a build as soon as a kernel-source and an upstream patch is available; however, there's a new ia64 2.6 maintainer, and I don't know how quickly he'll be able to put out an arch patch. So, an estimate of a few days after the availability of a kernel-source package is probably accurate while I figure out the right patchset (assuming the official patch will lag), and go through the build/test cycle. If its decided to use an rc release to get through the NEW queue, I'll do the same for the ia64 packages as swiftly as I can.
