Re: Consoles and d-i
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:05:38PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:03, Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:
> > I have now come up with a set of changes which implements it, see the
> > attached patch. I've tested it on my sparc box with a 2.6.38 netboot
> > image, with both regular and serial console.
>
> Why do you want to provide compatibility with older kernels? I'd say
> to use to update d-i to 2.6.38 and remove backward compatibility with
> older kernel since for linux we will release with >= 2.6.38 so no
> reason to support previous kernels.
>
> We just need to be sure to make it clear on commit and changelog.
>
> Someone disagree?
So, what is the conclusion? Should we just drop support for older
kernels?
Best regards,
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