Bug#65309: UDMA66 boot floppies video problem
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:39:27PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> herbert> > > I was thinking more of woody, where (hopefully) initrd will be used and the
> herbert> > > number of flavours should come down to one again.
> herbert> >
> herbert> > so how about for potato? this is somewhat release critical.
> herbert>
> herbert> Disable fb.
>
> Then, according to your previous advice (which qouted in the mail below)
> we should provide other kernels with -fb.
If you looked at what I was replying to, you would've found that in this
case I was referring to potato, and in the other one, woody.
> I think if the fb-support patch which defaults not to use fb written
> by Hatta and sent to BTS is used, then we does not need the separate
> kernel & pcmcia-modules packages.
The reason I didn't apply one is simply because IMHO this can be done without
the patch by simply having kernel images specifically for the Japanese version
of the boot floppies. The same cannot be said for the APM patch.
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