On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:52:58PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Err, would you please care about sending a bug report about this problem ? > > Done.
Cool. > > I asked for G5 tests since some time now, but nobody cared to try it > > out. > > Well, it took some effort to get hold of yorick and put Debian on him. hehe ... > > Yes, please, we need to have this kernel fixed well before d-i beta4. > > Should be alright if you just leave out CONFIG_SERIAL. Mmm, i believe there are IBM RS6000 Power4 boxes with serial port and serial console, probably this is not the right fix. > > Ideally, we should have a 2.6 aware debian-installer for beta4 too. > > First things first. I'll start work on the 2.6.5 kernel-image > packages now. Ok, please send them to me once you have finished. You will notice that the debian/rules is an horror, i wanted to clean it up some, and in particular not build the power3/4 prep and chrp packages, but only the pmac and chrp-rs6k ones. Also, spliting the power3 and power4 in smp and non-smp would be nice, since using a smp kernel on a non smp machines is said to have a serious performance hit (like 20-30% maybe i am told). Also, how is the alioth project going ? If it is opened, we should create a powerpc-kernel-maint list or something, and use that as the maintainer, and both of us as uploaders. Make sure you make the stuff available somewhere, so i can have a look early on. Friendly, Sven Luther
