On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:23:34AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > As you may know, or not, we are waiting for the abi-breaking 2.6.18-6 to be > > uploaded for pushing the 2.6.18 kernel into etch.
> > It seems 2.6.18.3 is announced for saturday, so this would mean a natural > > tentative schedule of let's say monday the 20th of november 2006 as upload > > date. > > Is there any comment on this ? Anyone has any particular stuff they would > > like > > included before -6 is released ? Or otherwise comments on this tentative > > deadline ? > I'd like to re-enable building atari images for m68k, 2.6.18 with some > patches is working on atari again and we might even haven two new drivers > for network hardware (one of those is working on our uberfast Falcons > already, they other one might, but we are still waiting for the hardware, > that's how new it is). Unfortunately I am a little handicapped right now and > I also managed to shoot down my atari, so it might be a little difficult to > test, once I have the patches sorted out. This would not change anything > with the existing m68k images, it would just (re-)add another one, which > means we have to go through new, but we have to anyhow because of the abi > change? There's no reason that 2.6.18-6 would need to be the last kernel upload for etch, but given that we appear to be bound by an ABI change for LSB reasons, there is a very good reason to get 2.6.18-6 uploaded sooner rather than later so that other packages depending on the kernel ABI version (including d-i) can be updated. If you have time to get these fixes in by Sven's suggested deadline, I would welcome them. Otherwise, I would strongly encourage the kernel team to push 2.6.18-6 out and defer the amiga changes until -7. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
