sparc32 2.4 kernel (was Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS)

2003-03-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >* Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030305 07:30]: >> uniprocessor sun4m works on some patched 2.4 kernels >Do you have some hints, which patches and what to be careful about? >I've severel sparcstation10 available and plan[1] to test th

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030305 07:30]: > uniprocessor sun4m works on some patched 2.4 kernels Do you have some hints, which patches and what to be careful about? I've severel sparcstation10 available and plan[1] to test the new installer on them (network-booting is so nice with them

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-04 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be >"is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32?" sparc32 isn't a single kernel architecture. >From what I've seen on the debian-sparc ma

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030301 22:20]: > > For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be > > "is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32?" > > Architectures that are still having problems with 2.4 should probably > be dropped. Si

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:00:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi > > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right > now, since

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be > "is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32?" Architectures that are still having problems with 2.4 should probably be dropped. Since they aren'

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > But you are right, we should get 2.4 working instead of hacking devfs into > > or out of d-i... > > Sure, but in the mean time we have to make sure there's an installer for > m68k that actually works. Else we could just as well shut down all m68k > buildd's, as it will not be worth it anymore.

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 00:16 schreef Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Wouter Verhelst] > > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > > debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right > >

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 05:57 schreef Christian T. Steigies: > But you are right, we should get 2.4 working instead of hacking devfs into > or out of d-i... Sure, but in the mean time we have to make sure there's an installer for m68k that actually works. Else we could just as well shut down all m68k

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:16:09AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Wouter Verhelst] > > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > > debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problema

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right > now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while D

m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while DevFS will only be foun