Hi! * Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> [060130 01:54]: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen [1] wrote: >> - Some hardware is only supported with 2.4, for example older laptops >> which need APM and don't work with ACPI. Also some non-i386 machines. Are there any cases, where you can't boot the machine, access harddisc and net only with a 2.4 kernel and not with 2.6? As far as I understood it's just support for apm and similar things, which aren't needed to install the system, aren't they? > The only downside for D-I is that we will have to maintain devfs support. > This is not a real problem but prevents code cleanups and streamlining > D-I towards udev. > > I guess D-I will follow whatever decision is taken regarding 2.4 support > for Etch. I agree that having it available ASAP is a good idea. I doubt > that we will want to support 2.4 for the graphical version of the > installer. Wouldn't it then be possible then to drop D-I support for 2.4 and ask user to install the old kernel, if needed after the installation? At least if supporting 2.4 for D-I is getting to complicate... Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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