Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> +++ b/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/modules/nic-extra-modules >> +enc28j60 >> +igb >> +r6040 > > Did you do a test build for all arches with these? There will be failures > if not all of them support this. Y

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > ide-generic did hurt a lot, it took over the ide device in various case > over the native driver, and disk support broke. Which cases? lack of ide-generic hurts a lot when it is the only driver for your controller too. > Also, this i

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:49:32PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > this thread goes no where. > > loading a module on *all* boxes for 0.01% percent of the population > is not the right thing to do. And what solution is there for the 0.01% that would like to continue using their systems? Do you

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread maximilian attems
this thread goes no where. loading a module on *all* boxes for 0.01% percent of the population is not the right thing to do. if you want some more informed statement read what fjp wrote down or come up with a fine patch. -- mask -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:21:34PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > that there is *zero* point in having it loaded first. > > also win 95 killed ISA thankfully. gone dead. > if someone really complains we can start wasting time there. Win95 ran just fine on an ISA only 486. Not dead what so eve

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:16:23AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:42:55AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > Kernel Team, please give us some guidance on that. Should we use > > > ide-generic-pci or ide-generic? > > >

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:42:55AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Kernel Team, please give us some guidance on that. Should we use > > ide-generic-pci or ide-generic? > > on my TODO, currently fjp has the best write up on the current situation. >

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-25 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> I've prepared a set of patches against current kernel-wedge to update > >> it. > > > > Thanks. > > > >>  - ide-generic-pci > >> > >>    I haven't add it si

Re: Switch to 2.6.25 [was Re: Switch to 2.6.25, Xen and speakup - kernel-wedge maintainer wanted!]

2008-06-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > +++ b/packages/kernel/kernel-wedge/modules/nic-extra-modules > +enc28j60 > +igb > +r6040 Did you do a test build for all arches with these? There will be failures if not all of them support this. See also my reply today to Martin's inventory mail.

Re: Switch to 2.6.25

2008-06-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> I've prepared a set of patches against current kernel-wedge to update >> it. > > Thanks. > >>  - ide-generic-pci >> >>    I haven't add it since I found no reference about it being used by >>    other distros

Re: Switch to 2.6.25 [was Re: Switch to 2.6.25, Xen and speakup - kernel-wedge maintainer wanted!]

2008-06-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 22 June 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I've prepared a set of patches against current kernel-wedge to update > it. Thanks. >  - ide-generic-pci > >    I haven't add it since I found no reference about it being used by >    other distros and then I prefer to still use ide-generic for now

Switch to 2.6.25 [was Re: Switch to 2.6.25, Xen and speakup - kernel-wedge maintainer wanted!]

2008-06-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, I've prepared a set of patches against current kernel-wedge to update it. Comments bellow: - ide-generic-pci I haven't add it since I found no reference about it being used by other distros and then I prefer to still use ide-generic for now, so near of release - virtio_bkl, xe

Switch to 2.6.25, Xen and speakup - kernel-wedge maintainer wanted!

2008-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
I'm extremely disappointed that we've not yet been able to switch D-I over to 2.6.25, but the plain fact is that the needed work is just not being done. The basic problem seems to be that we don't have a maintainer for kernel-wedge. Joey has done that job up to 2.6.22 with occasional contribut

Re: [RFC] Adding a 686-bigmem netboot image for PAE/Xen (was: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels)

2008-05-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:04 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 02:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Now seems like a good time to remind you that I would like to add > > -686-bigmem kernel udebs to the mix to support running D-I under PAE

[RFC] Adding a 686-bigmem netboot image for PAE/Xen (was: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels)

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 02:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Now seems like a good time to remind you that I would like to add > -686-bigmem kernel udebs to the mix to support running D-I under PAE > Xen. I don't see any real objection to adding only a netb

Re: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > If there are no comments I'll commit in about 2 days. After acks from Otavio, Joey and Max I have committed my changes. This means that now porters can start checking for changes in modules. As I said in the last mail, I'm going to leave that to other

Re: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 02:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Today I have done the initial work to prepare the switch to 2.6.25 for D-I. Now seems like a good time to remind you that I would like to add -686-bigmem kernel udebs to the mix to support running D-I under PAE Xen. http://lists.debian.

Re: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-27 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please comment based on my git log entries below. If anyone wants to review > the actual patches before they are committed I can provide them. > If there are no comments I'll commit in about 2 days. First I'd

Re: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, you wrote: > The first two changes below are minor: modules made optional because they > are no longer available. Damn. Knew I was missing something. There was another dropped module. > Overview of changes > === 0. irda-modules: irport module is no lon

Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
Today I have done the initial work to prepare the switch to 2.6.25 for D-I. Note that I have done no checks at all for new/removed/changed modules, not even for i386/amd64! I'll leave that to others. What I have done is only the structural changes required to build using basically the cu