Re: Bug#386265: base-installer patch for prep support.
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:07:06PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>>
>> > + if [ "$1" = powerpc ] && [ "$SMP" ]; then
>> > + # 2.4 only has powerpc-smp.
>> > + echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1$SMP"
>> > + fi
>> > + echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1"
>> > + ;;
>>
>> Well this isn't a patch complain but lack of information from my
>> part.
>>
>> I would like to know why we're keeping support to 2.4 kernels since no
>> architecture is using it right now?
>
> We should drop it, i don't remember now if this was a leftover from the
> generic 2.4 removal i did, or if i had chosen not to touch that part of the
> patch back then.
>
> My vote is to drop all 2.4 memory from those files, especially for powerpc.
Frans,
Could you comment on that? I agree with Sven here and I would like to
remove all code specific for 2.4 kernels. I don't think we need to
change all d-i code for it but when we're doing changes and that has
code that's specific for 2.4 it could be dropped that time too.
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