On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the > 2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to > forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding > them to the debian kernel package, altough i fear what Christoph will have to > say from a 1.8MB patch. Is all this really necessary ? >
For 2.6 I'm down to about 200KB, which I think includes some of the original A1 files that I'm not using (e.g. _time merged into _setup as a preliminary to using todc_time). This is without e.g. the floppy stuff and the so-called dma fixes. If it can be made to work, I guess 200KB or less (which is still rather a lot). > > Bah, please don't go the same way this happened last year, and have a thought > at providing the packages back upstream, altough i believe it may well be too > late for the sarge release by now, at least for debian-installer which is very > near the release. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > Agreed, if it doesn't eventually get merged then it isn't worth doing. I've heard the people at mai are issuing a binary 2.6.6 to their testers, whoever they might be, but they aren't exactly communicative. My own attempts on 2.6.7 are at a very early stage and have certain difficulties (page-up in 'less' locks it, coming out of X gives a non-legible screen, and the rtc stuff isn't working properly yet). But then, I was never cut out to be a kernel hacker. Looks like I'm unlikely to get back to 2.6 before September, unfortunately. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
