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Re: Question regarding kernel policy: Why ext2 as module?]



On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:32:15PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:48:57PM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:34, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:15:56AM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> > > > As an aftertought: Im asking this because I am after a method that will
> > > > work for *all* kernels in Debian not just 2.6.6. Rather than trying them
> > > > all out I was hoping you could tell me.
> > > > 
> > > AFAIK debian 2.4 has not initramfs support.
> > > 
> > Right. Thanks for letting me know.
> > 
> > I've done more testing and it looks like 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 are fine but
> > prior 2.6 kernels are not. I presume they don't have the patch applied
> > that fixes the root parameter issue (cf. the message link I gave
> > earlier). Will this be fixed you think or will older 2.6 kernels maybe
> > be pulled from the archive prior to the Sarge release?
> > 
> 
> We will release probable 2.6.7 only if every arch will be ok with that.

Huh ? This seems ridicoulous. 2.6.7 will be the default powerpc kernel, and i
have no intention of supporting older 2.4 or 2.6 kernels. The same goes for
both Jens and hch, not to speak with most of powerpc upstream, so ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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