Re: [desktop] Patched kernels
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 00:39, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > * Colin Walters
> >
> > | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use
> > | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already
> > | included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-image-preempt
> > | package or something that debian desktop can have installed by default.
> >
We may be a long way off having 2.6 ready for sarge. We would like to
have a preview copy of sarge by the end of the month. 2.6 may not be
ready _this_year_ .
> > Nobody has even begun thinking about getting d-i to work with 2.5/2.6.
> > Until that is tested and works this won't fly at all. (Yes, this is a
> > ?somebody, please step forward and test/fix d-i with 2.5/2.6?)
>
Not quite true. Nobody _officially_ has begun testing with 2.5;
unofficially at least I have. Nobody has put 2.5 kernel based images for
public testing.
Note that with IDE, etc badly broken in 2.5, at least until recently,
Its not worth doing so unless you're lucky in your hardware.
> How much is broken with 2.5 right now? Could someone who's familiar
> with the issues give an approximation as to how much work it would take
> to adapt d-i to 2.5?
>
> In addition, why does d-i have to run 2.6 at all? Couldn't it run 2.4,
> and install a 2.6 kernel for normal use for those that want it?
>
There are some advantages; eg in the kbd-chooser, the new input API
lists attached keyboards in /proc; I can ask / skip the keyboard
question based on this, or autodetect better (eg present a list of PS2
or USB keyboards, or both, or neither .. - ).
I've been testing 2.5 for this reason, as kbd-chooser maintainer.
> - David
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