On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:01:05PM -0700, brian wrote: > > > --- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:34:25PM -0700, Harold > > Johnson wrote: > > > **Hi Brian, > > > > > > I appreciate your response, but I'm not quite > > certain about what you're > > > driving at. Do you need a kernel or something? > > I've been able to upgrade > > > to Ubuntu Dapper on my Wallstreet PowerBook, and > > it's using kernel > > > 2.6.15-26, > > > > The problem is with 2.6.16, and the change between > > ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc > > ?? could you give more explanation what this is ?? > ? this from bug 353461 of 18february'06 ?
Previous to 2.6.15/2.6.14, there where two kernel architectures, ppc and ppc64, with lot of duplication. In 2.6.15 the migration started for ppc64 to have a single architecture for both, namely powerpc, and this was completed for powerpc/chrp in 2.6.16, while prep and apus still stayed in ARCH=ppc, and nubus is not ported to 2.6 yet. If you get a kernel source, the thing is that the code changed between what was in arch/ppc and now is in arch/powerpc. This is a pretty major migration, and code changed, so for oldworld machines, problems with 2.6.16 are pretty much linked to this migration. > > this entailed, so ubuntu's 2.6.15 should not exhibit > > any of those problems, > > nor the version of 2.6.15 which used to be in sarge > > I never saw anything past 2.6.8-3, i was doing updates > every week or two since early this year. Sure, you are following sarge, i am speaking of etch/sid. > yes or no, would 2.6.15 let me upgrade the rest of > etch Sure, you need some upgrade thingy for udev, but it gives you a message on what to do when it complains. > (possible i put hold on kernel package) ?? wasn't > there something with 2.6.11 and above ?? (udev ?), ie > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/02/msg00447.html Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
