Re: Release Notes - What kernel versions are supported?

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> I am working on the Sarge Release Notes and would like some info on the 
> kernel versions available for m68k subarchs and supported by Debian 
> Installer.
> 
> If I look at the archive for Sarge, I see 2.2.25, 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 
> kernels.
> 
> My questions:
> - Which are available for which subarchs?
> - Which are available for installation with Debian Installer?

You could see that by looking at available packages, I'd say ;-)

By looking at them, I see that there are 2.2.25 packages for amiga,
atari, mac, BVME4000/6000, MVME147, and MVME16x/17x.

For 2.4.27, all of the above plus Q40/Q60.

For 2.6.8, all of the above plus HP9000 and Sun3 machines.

> - Which are preferred / used by default by Debian Installer?

Now that is a very good question :-)

If I'm not mistaken (and I'm sure Stephen or Christian will correct me
if I am), it's as follows: for mac, 2.2; for everything else, 2.4. The
architectures only supported by 2.6 kernels haven't been tested very
well yet, and don't yet have debian-installer support either; so these
don't have to be mentioned in the release notes, I'd say (or if you do,
only to say that there's no supported installer for them yet).

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