Re: latest debian-installer fixes: TITAN compatibility, de2104x support

[Uwe Schindler <uwe@thetaphi.de>]

Wonderful, tested the new -generic images on a SRM machine - works 
still perfectly. And thanks for your work to get prctl working! Now I 
can start programs that flood my logs with unaligned traps simply 
with "prctl --unaligned=silent <cmd>".
I think one should enable alpha as supported architecture for prctl. 
I downloaded the source package, changed debian/control (added alpha) 
and it compiled without any warnings or errors!
Now I am very happy with alpha support, the only thing is the problem 
with multithreaded apps (the bug in glibc that creates defunct 
processes)! Is there any news about that? This is very annoying 
because there is a patch available for that since about 3-4 months!!! 
Why is nobody able to apply this patch to glibc without discussing 
all the time about pros and cons that does not matter? At this time I 
set libc6.1 to "HOLD" and replaced my libpthread by a self-compiled 
and patched version.
Or the other chance to fix that: What about NPTL - are the buildd's 
now linux2.6 and can compile NPTL libc's?

THANKS and hoping for glibc!

 At 11:48 26.02.2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> With the linux-2.6 2.6.15-7 package in unstable, the LEGACY_START_ADDRESS
> kernel option has been moved to a separate "legacy" kernel flavor, which
> means the Debian alpha port should again support TITAN-class systems such as
> the DS15, DS25, DS45, and ES47 which need more memory for SRM.
> Debian-installer netboot images are also now available than include this
> support, at <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/alpha/daily/>.  (Since
> daily CD image building has now switched to use etch d-i in preparation for
> d-i etch beta2, this enhancement will not be available on CDs until another
> round of d-i autobuilds take place.)
>
> Also new in these images, the de2104x module has been enabled in d-i for
> compatibility with 21040 and 21041 network cards.  A bug is still open on
> the kernel packages about whether this is the correct module to use with
> these cards; if you experience networking troubles with tulip-based
> chipsets, either in these dailies or in beta2 when it's released, please
> follow up to bug #352765 to give the kernel team evidence that the current
> upstream driver mappings are incorrect.  In the meantime, having de2104x
> loaded is probably better than not having *anything* loaded, for most users.
> :)
>
> In addition to these fixes to the daily netboot builds, the daily CD builds
> should now correctly be installing 2.6.15 kernels on all systems, instead of
> 2.4.27 as before.
>
> Installation reports using the template at
> <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug> are
> welcome for any of these images, to let us know what works and what doesn't.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
> vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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