Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 42 lines --] > > Hi all, > > we should start making 2.6.15-rc ready in experimental, so we can again > upload the final version the same day upstream releases, and maybe do it > in time through the NEW queue this time. > > But before that, every arch maintainer needs to check their configs and > maybe rediff some (now commented out) patches. > > For the start, the orig tarball for 2.6.15-rc4 is at > > http://people.debian.org/~fs/linux-2.6_2.6.14+2.6.15-rc4.orig.tar.gz > > > I have the amd64 configs in sync, and would like to upload a first try > to experimental. > > Unfortunately, I cannot upload amd64 binaries to the archive yet, so I > worked on the i386 parts too. This leads us to the following problem: > > The 386 flavour used to have CONFIG_M386 set, wich currently fails to > build due to missing CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG (which is !M386), which in turn > is needed for example by ACPI. > > Currently the 386 flavour breaks after some warnings about this. > > I wonder why we don't drop M386 support at all, and switch to M486? > The alternative would be investigate the changes and fix all concerned > code, which I sincerely don't have the time to do. > > Current post-sarge kernels won't work on "real i386" systems anyway, > since we dropped x86-i486_emu.dpatch.
M486 sounds reasonable to me. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
