Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:32:27PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I don't think all ports have rebuilt yet. PowerPC seems to have > > serious kernel troubles. > > its a misconfiguration, sysrq is turned on and this happens to break > the arrow keys on some keyboards. sysrq needs to stay off on powerpc > for the timebeing, none of the powerpc kernel hackers use it so its > almost invariably broken.
Has anyone filed a grave bug against the PowerPC kernel (must be kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac )? Is anyone going to attempt to fix this for a Potato update? > the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk > prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue. Is this related? It's a kernel issue, right? > > Do I need to think about another potato update for 2.2.19 kernels? > > IMO shipping a pre kernel when the real one is out is somewhat tacky > at the least... Yah, well, if I'm provided kernels/modules for i386 its pretty easy to update the boot-floppies. I find that such minor kernel version changes rarely break things (at least on i386). -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
