Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:27:35PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> An Example:
> Starting with 2.4.20, the mips cache code underwent major changes. This
> broke the r4k-kn04 subarchitecture, and some of the r4k-ip22 machines.
> Most of the latter were fixed relatively quickly, with improved
> performance, but some remained flaky, and the former remained broken
> until 2.4.25, when the mips kernels were synced up again. A single
> kernel package would elevate this from the architecture level to a
> problem for whole debian.
Huh? changes in the interface to arch/ are very rare in stable series.
It's not that difficult to drop arch/ from an older release into a
more modern kernel, although it should really be a last ressort for
rare cases like the one above. This trades a one-time big diff for
continues headache about security fixes, etc.. So it's a good thing.
> > Handle them the same as everywhere? Urgend per-arch changes become
> > NMU, if anything interesting for the others happened just make it a
> > normal release.
>
> You can't do a source NMU for a single arch. That is, unless you are
> proposing to do arch-specific source packages, which would waste about
> 500 MB mirror space and traffic per version.
Ah, okay.
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