At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:51:22 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > So, i am seriously considering dropping all 2.4 powerpc kernels, and > going with 2.6 only, and would like to get feedback both from > debian-kernel as well as debian-powerpc, feedback i didn't get in the > past. > > Ah, and i am seriously considering dropping support for apus from the > kernels (and thus debian-installer). I believe that they are only a > handfull of apus users left, and those are happily running self built > 2.2 kernels. Furthermore, i have some evidence that not only where the > debian apus kernels never tried on apus, but also that there is big > chance they don't even work. I don't have apus hardware anymore, so ...
The transition 2.4 -> 2.6 is generally good idea. However, did you confirm that various packages is 2.6 ready? For example video/console related package and so on. I don't want to see a lot of FTBFS bugs that say: "PPC has only 2.6 kernel, and this package is not usable!" before releasing sarge. Testing one kernel is easy; testing various packages is hard. Unfortunatelly sarge release schedule is not decided yet, but I fear this transition makes something damage for releasing sarge (including d-i). Is this well tested? Except for this issue, I welcome your decision. Regards, -- gotom
