Re: Things we need from sid
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Herbert Xu wrote on Thu Jan 24, 2002 um 07:59:52PM:
> > So are these an official part of boot-floppies? Should they be being
> > (co?)maintained by Herbert to keep them in sync with the other kernels?
No. I allow to update the package and NMU if I do not respond for >=2
days, but Herbert should keep his hands of it.
> I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4
I can imagine that you will do, but then I worry about the future
of the package.
> Without initrd, you can include only so many hardware drivers. And for all
> of the important drivers that I can think of (such as NetGear FA311TX,
> AICRAID, Promise Ultra IDE etc.), the support is already in at least one of
> the latest 2.2 images anyway.
- This are patches
- ide patched kernel is reported to hang on some new chipsets while IDE
detection
> 2. Support for ext3/reiserfs.
>
> IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care
2.4 uses reiserfs-3.6 as default, 2.2.20 does not (and apparently will
never) support it. Imagine someone downloads the Debian stuff to a
ReiserFS partition under SuSE/RedHat (where reiserfs-3.6 has been used
for epochs) and tries to mount it.
> Ext3 does not need boot floppies support. Conversion after installation
> of a 2.4 kernel is trivial.
Not providing an Ext3 option as-default would damage Debian's reputation.
> 3. Better support for auxiliary hardware such as sound cards.
>
> A 2.4 kernel is only an apt-get install away so this has no place when
Blah. You should know better than me that this is not true.
> If there is another important reason for a 2.4 kernel, please let me know.
As you wish:
- the 64MB detection limit, AFAIK this has been fixed in 2.4
- working Plug-and-Play. As someone in the list allready reported, we
allways have a problem with isapnp cards. Do you want a clueless
user to change to a second console and work with pnpdump and isapnp
just to make the damn thing work?
- network cards. You did include the natsemi driver - wow. But what
about many other cards and new releases (such as for Tulip cards),
which are not supported by 2.2.x?
- new ide chipsets. 2.4 has more and and much stable drivers.
- newer ISDN drivers. People installing with a (often sold) Fritc-PCIv2
card would "thank" us for using kernel-2.2.x.
- newer USB network hardware is not supported by 2.2.20. Same for other
possible installation media.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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