Re: Kernel vmsplice security update

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

Am Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:18:32 +0100 schrieb Laurent Bonnaud:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:06 +0000, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>> I'm a bit worried about that, especially because the Broadcom
>> NetXtremeII driver is required for some recent Dell systems, e.g. the
>> PowerEdge 1950.
> 
> Indeed.  We have such servers and we are stuck with 2.6.22 kernels.  If a
> kind backporter could backport kernel 2.6.24 with the bnx2 module, this
> would be great.

If there really will be no firmware package in non-free providing these
drivers, I'm going to build my own kernel packages based on the Debian
ones with these drivers enabled.

But I'm not going to upload these packages to backports.org.

	Norbert