On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 20:12 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 04:16 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > > > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series > > > 2.6.32.y. > > > > > > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, > > > but there are so many interrelated changes to e1000e since 2.6.32 that > > > this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of e1000e from > > > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch: > > > > > > git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git e1000e-test > > > > > > The kernel configuration files we use are at > > > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>. > > > > > > We would appreciate any help Intel can provide in testing this, and any > > > advice on changes that should be added or reverted. > > > > > > I'll also be looking at doing this for igb later. > > > > Full source and binary packages containing e1000e, igb, and other > > backported drivers can now be found at: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ > > > > I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will > > have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away). > > Unfortunately that's exactly what happened. But let's try this again. > I updated igb and igbvf to 3.0 as there seemed to be significant > additions in hardware support. e1000e is still at 2.6.38 with one later > fix. > > The backports of e1000e, igb and igbvf are available in the git branch: > > git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git squeeze > > The changes start after tag debian/2.6.32-35squeeze1. > > The kernel configuration files we use are at > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>. > > Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported > drivers can now be found at: > > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ > > We would appreciate any help you can provide in testing this, and any > advice on changes that should be added or reverted. > > Ben. > Ben, I cannot guarantee any testing resources right now, when would like testing to be done/completed? Cheers, Jeff
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