On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:47:34PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > * 2.4 is the only thing viable on sparc32 > * US and Amiga seem to have issues with 2.6 as well > * ia64 boot with 2.6 not ready yet > * alpha won't be on 2.6 until until there's some sign of the PCI fixes > making it into the kernel-images Update: the PCI fixes are reported to be in kernel-source-2.6.7, but no kernel-images are available on alpha yet that build from this source. > vorlon said that alpha is in pretty solid shape; the two big > outstanding issues for them are that automatic partitioning doesn't > yet account for the space aboot needs, and that 2.4 kernel images in > the archive are still in need of a major PCI fix. He estimates that > it affects close to 1/4 of the alpha hardware. 2.6 hasn't been tried > yet. An updated aboot-installer has been uploaded to the archive this evening. I've pounded on this a fair amount over the weekend, so I believe it's ready for sarge immediately. This should mostly address the aboot space issue; in addition, I need to commit some alpha-specific partman-auto recipes to go with it. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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