Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:46:18PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Le lundi 03 octobre 2005 à 18:01 +0900, Horms a écrit :
>
>
> > What is the status of replacing initrd. Do we actually have a solution
> > that works across a wide range of architectres? Wide enough for
> > an upload to experimental? Wide enough for unstable and testing?
>
>
> initramfs-tools is test on i386, ppc, amd64, and sparc. ia64 are having
> issues that I will start tracking again when Breezy releases (I've just
> run out of time for now), but both appear to be solvable.
>
> On i64, the inflate code misreads the magic number, I suspect that
> get_byte is behaving poorly.
>
> On hppa, I am getting a segfault in run_init and an lseek error in
> fstype. It's probably something simple like a register that needs to be
> setup.
>
> I have not tested on mips, mipsel, arm, m68k, s390 or sh. klibc failed
> on mips and mipsel, which isn't promising. It compiled on s390 which is
> surprising.
>
> We have a workaround for the compile error for sparc.
>
> The ports that I listed as known-working above are using initramfs-tools
> for the Breezy release. So I generally *hope* they're well enough
> tested. I'll let you know in a week ;)
Thanks for the update, and good luck with Breezy :-)
It sounds more and more to me that experimental would be a good place
for 2.6.13 for now.
--
Horms
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