Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

2004-08-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > It will be 2.6.8. > > If you write 2.6.8, do you mean 2.6.8.1? Or is the diff to .1 included > in the Debian packages? I cannot find a hint and the version number is > misleading. Given the diff to .1 is tiny and four-digit versi

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much > >deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. > >It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had > >an e

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ? Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.4 it has quite a lot.. > The problem is that i am running the powerpc kernel

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > disks, in the same approximate spot that it does when using the 2.4 > kernel. I'll see what I c

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. > Of course, loading a module

Re: failed to insert STA entry for the AP (error -2)

2022-12-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi all, adding the debian-kernel list due to issues with using debian-installer daily snapshot to install on my brand new laptop with an ath11k_pci supported wifi chip. It turns out that while d-i comes with the ath11k and ath11k_pci drivers, but misses the qrtr, qrtr-mki and michael_mic modules

enabling CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK

2004-08-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
We have tons of reports for broken CDs in the BTS, and I noticed that unlike the commercial distibution vendors we don't have CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK set ibn our install kernels. I'd rather play safe and slow in this case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Processed: reassign 270385 to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386

2004-09-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:03:08AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.4 > > reassign 270385 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 > Bug#270385: [i386] [20040905] SCSI controller DDRS-39130W

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers > > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as > > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI > > b

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:54:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > The d-i images really need to be built from kernel-image packages that > > are in the archive at the time we ship. Optimizing for 486 isn't a very > > good reason on its own to force another kernel build cycle.

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:20:56AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Frederik Schueler: > > > -generic is odd and too long. I am considering to change the naming > > scheme completely, and call the flavours 2.6.x-y-amd64 and > > 2.6.x-y-em64t respectively. > > Newer GCCs produce AMD64 code which i