On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:33:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I'd rather make a set of 2.4 install disks available than include > > patches like this in our 2.2 kernel. > > It's certainly possible to change the boot-floppies over to 2.4 > kernels, but I doubt the wisdom of that. I recently tried to run the > kernel-image-2.4-powerpc (2.4.8-1) and it wouldn't even boot my > machine (hung after the RTC stuff). Not to mention that 2.4.8 is > rather old. So I question the maturity of that. I certainly don't > know of anyone testing the install system with kernel 2.4 on an array > of PowerPC hardware.
I didn't suggest changing over, but making them available. I'm not comfortable with the PCI patch, and this is the next best option. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
