I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT (prevents at least one user triggerable oops). This seemed convenient, since the k-s-2.6.8-14 had its own ABI change.
Well, turns out this was a bad idea - we've decided to revert the ABI change from the kernel-source, and the ia64 images are blocked from sarge because of it. Is it feasible (or even a good idea) to revert this ABI change? The only problem I can come up with is that sid systems that installed the -2 ABI version and the -3 ABI version won't use -2 as a default kernel after the upgrade. That seems acceptable since after all, this is sid, and once we do the pending ABI roll, it will be -3 once again. And, I'd like for sarge users to be able to test new uploads. (Sorry for the broad distribution, but I want to be sure to get this right). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
