Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)
Sven Luther wrote:
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> > > Yeah, but what about 2.6 for powerpc and x86 (and maybe some other who
> > > is ready) and 2.4 for the rest of it (and 2.2 for some m68k subarches).
> >
> > It would kill floppy boot images for i386 (2.6 is too big for it).
>
> Err, what is the problem in having 2.4 floppy debian-installer, and then
> install the 2.6 kernel on the installed system.
That's not a problem, apart from diverging device support for e.g. SATA.
But d-i uses the normal debian kernel. If you eliminate 2.4 i386, then
there's no such kernel left for d-i.
> We also have this
> problem on powerpc, and another solution may be a separate kernel
> flavour for 2.6 debian-installer floppies. Altough we are only 300-400KB
> away of fiting on a floppy with miboot.
IOW, it doesn't work there as well. Everything not needed for boot
should already be in modules anyway.
Thiemo
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