Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-22 Thread Joel Soete
Hi all, Some weeks ago I discover the effort the Con Kolivas effort to backport the last developement of ingo for 2.4.20: May be is it whar your are looking for? hth, Joel

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 07:55:36AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 00:39, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > * Colin Walters > > > > > > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 00:39, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * Colin Walters > > > > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use > > | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Nusinow | On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Colin Walters | > | > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use | > | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already | > | included. We'll probably ju

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.5 apparently has a replacement for initrd which may require some changes. initramfs is currently 100% backwards compatible. So no changes are needed for initrd users. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{P

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:39, David Nusinow wrote: > How much is broken with 2.5 right now? Could someone who's familiar > with the issues give an approximation as to how much work it would take > to adapt d-i to 2.5? 2.5 has a replacement set of utilities for loading kernel modules. The installer

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Colin Walters > > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use > | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already > | included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-imag

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colin Walters | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already | included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-image-preempt | package or something that debian desktop can have installed by

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 08:52, Mark Howard wrote: > Hi, > When the debian-desktop project was started, there was a lot of talk > about creating kernel images patched for improved performance. Most > people agreed that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately no such > packages seem to have been cre

[desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Mark Howard
Hi, When the debian-desktop project was started, there was a lot of talk about creating kernel images patched for improved performance. Most people agreed that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately no such packages seem to have been created. Is anybody working on this? What problems are stop