On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:39:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Horms made a [2 presentation] about the kernel packaging in debian for > > LCA > > and gave two options: a.) support and backport fixes for 2.4.27 or b.) > > go > > with 2.4.32. Somehow he did not consider the option of dropping 2.4 even > > if he calls it legacy ;-) > > > > Besides technical reasons (security fixes handled by upstream, some > > driver > > updates and very few new ones) I think we should not forget that most > > people have no idea that 2.4.27 in debian is far closer to 2.4.32 than > > to > > .27, and therefore will think debian ships an outdated 2.4 kernel. So I > > think we should simply go for 2.4.3x, if it is sensible to support 2.4 > > in > > etch at all. > > We could ship 2.4.3x in a 2.4.27 named package :)
For m68k I'd be interested in having an updated 2.4 source in etch. The last builds of kernel-patch-m68k already contained a patch which took m68k to 2.4.30 or whatever was current at the time. The two Atari Falcon/CT60 machines (our fastest buildds currently) work great with a patched 2.4.30, I'd like to get that packaged. Amiga's work fine with 2.6, except for the keyboard layout, but that will be probably fixed soon. (Some) Macs are reported to work with 2.6 also, unfortunately my Mac has not crashed in two months, so I could not try for myself yet... with an updated 2.4 kernel we might be able to get rid of 2.2.25(!) for m68k, the first step of going 2.6 on m68k all the way :-) Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
