On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:45, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 25, Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote: > > There are some architectures where 2.4 is required, its > > because of these that it seems that we are stuck with 2.4 for Etch. > > alpha (installer), m68k (2.6 only works on amiga), s390 > > (installer), mips, mipsel > > What does "installer" mean? IIRC SuSE supports s390 with 2.6 kernels. Here is a short conversation on #d-kernel on this subject: < fjp> waldi: Should work be started to support installing using 2.6.12 for s/390? < fjp> Or is there a reason to stick with 2.4.27? < waldi> fjp: we have nothing for configuring the hardware < fjp> waldi: configure in what way? < waldi> fjp: write the information into sysfs < fjp> waldi: Is that a kernel problem, a debian problem or a d-i problem? < waldi> the second < fjp> what packages are involved? < waldi> there is no package to do the configuration < fjp> Anybody working on this or likely to work on it? < waldi> i do, but no time < fjp> :-/ < waldi> i need mostly the same config type for my pseries machines
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