Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

Op ma 03-03-2003, om 23:45 schreef Branden Robinson:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:15:03AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le lun 03/03/2003 ? 01:36, Branden Robinson a ?crit :
> > 
> > >    To date, no kernels with the feature of sending Linux keycodes exist for
> > >    m68k-based Macintoshes.
> > 
> > You should perhaps indicate the date and kernel version this refers to.
> 
> If someone could clarify the situation with kernel 2.4 on m68k, I'd
> appreciate it.

There are actually some 2.4 kernels available for m68k, but due to an
issue related to glibc[1] that started somewhere in the glibc-2.2 area,
they don't boot.

There used to be a bug report on glibc regarding that issue, which was
rather quickly reassigned to the kernel-patch-2.4.7-m68k package. Since,
to date, nobody ever solved the issue, the latter package has now been
removed from the archive.

[1] note that I'm not pointing fingers here, I'm not skilled enough in
that area to tell who's "fault" it is.

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