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Re: Debian on SGI Altix IA-64



> If anybody is interested, you can find the CD and a text describing what
> we did to make it work at:
> 
> http://rad.bioinfo.ulaval.ca/hardware/altixia64/


I tried to read the document quickly, but it's not really easy to dig
out which changes would be needed.

It seems that you added some modules. Are these modules
DFSG-compliant?

If they aren't, I'm afraid that it will be hard to have them on the
official Debian CD.

If they are.....I'm afraid it is very late now to add them to the
Debian stock kernel.

It appear that your tests were still made with a 2.6.17 kernel....so
indeed, your only chance for an official support of these machines in
Debian would be a genuine support of this hardware in the 2.6.18
kernel that will be used for Etch.

Have yor tried with *very recent* daily builds AND installing
unstable, not testing?


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