Re: Bug#231538: A possible solution

At Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:27:16 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040302 08:10]: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:22:30PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > > > > > Well newer initrd-tools module-init-tools should be in woody > > > > in order to upgrade to sarge smoothly.

Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:59:41 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:21:42AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: >> >> I don't care much, not being particularly familiar with either arch >> or svn. If you ask me, it's cvs, but that has become unfashiona

Re: Sarge TODO items

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:34:05 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That said, i prefer the simpler to use subversion, it let you be > more productive. Do you have any basis for that statement? I have absolutely no experience with subversion, but I often hear Branden grumbling

Re: current firmware blacklist

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:35:40PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Please, no debates on the firmware subject. > > Here is the current blacklist of tainted files that need to be > sanitized and/or removed from virgin mainline. Why is drivers/scsi/qlogicisp_asm.c not on this list? -- "Next

current firmware blacklist

Please, no debates on the firmware subject. Here is the current blacklist of tainted files that need to be sanitized and/or removed from virgin mainline. drivers/net/acenic_firmware.h drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c drivers/net/tg3.c drivers/net/tokenring/smctr_firmware.h drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100_

upstream resynch

I've sent a number of bugfixes upstream for inclusion in 2.6.7, based on hch's breakup of the old cvs tree: patches/00_dont-dereference-netdev.name-before-register_netdev:2:This fixes Debian BTS #234817. patches/00_drivers-atkbd-quiten:2:This fixes Debian BTS #239036. patches/00_drivers-net-irda-

suggestion for new kernel stuff

Currently, kernel boot args are set in lilo and grub specific locations. It would be nice if there was a central location for boot loaders to pull kernel args. I'd recommend something like /etc/kernel/. The goals would be to allow packages to set kernel args and bootloader options (ie, devfsd ma

Re: Bug#231538: A possible solution

* Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040302 08:10]: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:22:30PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > > > Well newer initrd-tools module-init-tools should be in woody > > > in order to upgrade to sarge smoothly. > > Is this ok? Herbert? Marco? If not, I reassign this bug to

Sarge and real i386-boxes

Hi, since some time, it's not possible to upgrade to sarge with an real i386-box (real mean: not i486 or higher). This is due to changes in the gcc, and therefore we need an upgrade kernel etc, see bug #241497 for the details. It was intended to put this kernel into dists/sarge/main/upgrade-i386.