Re: goals for next release
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:41:29PM -0000, Dermot Bradley wrote:
> >> The vendor already supplies full diffs for driver 6.21 at
> >> http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk98lin.htm for
> >> 2.4.23 kernel.
> >
> > Cool, now you must convince Herbert to apply these to the official
> > debian kernels, and everyone should be happy.
> >
> > I guess the best way would be to open a bug report against
> > kernel-source-2.4.24 or something such, with tag d-i and patch, explain
> > your problem, and either provide the link to the patch or the patch
> > directly as attachement, and CC the bugreport to debian-boot.
>
> I'd guess that by the time I get Herbert to agree((if indeed he would) and
> then for debian-installer to use this patched kernel-source-2.4.24 that
> 2.4.25 would probably be released with proper support already built in.
Well, debian-installer would probably use the new kernel in a matter of
days. Joeyh is very reactive on that.
> I've CCed Herbert in this reply for his comments.
Ok. Herbert what do you think about this, i think you are the one best
placed to make a decision one way or the other.
> >> I'm more than willing to act as a guinea pig for testing
> >> debian-installer
> >> on my NForce2 board.
> >
> > Yeah, but actually it has nothing to do with debian-installer, just a
> > plain 'debian official kernel doesn't support my hardware' kind of bug.
>
> Well I'd expect the kernel used for debian-installer to be the bleeding
> edge kernel with support for all the latest network hardware so that
> someone can at least get debian installed (and network refreshed) in the
> first place. Whether the mainstream debian kernel supports that hardware
> isn't necessarily an issue as, with network access, the newly installed
> system can download any required patches etc if a new kernel does need to
> be built.
Well, debian-installer takes the kernel from the archive, and this is
willed, since it is bad that the install works, and then suddenly after
the reboot, the new kernel doesn't work anymore.
So, it is back to either wait 2.4.25, which can be soon or maybe also
not, or convince Herbert to add this patch.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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