Re: Reducing the number of kernels
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther writes:
>
> > Which patch set did you use ?
>
> A forward port of debian-powerpc.diff from kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc.
Ah, so you didn't use the -benh 2.4.26 bitkeeper checkout, something in those
diffs probably did break it. I will look at this, and investigate where the
problem is. Still it would probably make sense to drop the -benh patches and
use the linuxppc-2.4 tree directly, since all pmacs and such should use 2.6
anyway, and the linuxppc-2.4 may have more support for more exotic hardware
than the -benh tree.
BTW, another issue. I wanted to try debian-installer in mol. Do you know if
there is still need of a patched kernel to run it in MOL ? And if yes, do you
think it would be feasible to apply this patch to the standard debian kernel ?
Christoph, any opinion on this ?
> > > > we could stay with 2.4.25 for d-i maybe.
> > >
> > > Then powerpc would be the only arch requiring a 2.4.25 kernel.
> >
> > Yeah, but d-i tentative release is tomorrow so, ...
>
> I suppose a release candidate will branch from the main development
> tree? Then the latter could start using a 2.4.26 kernel as soon as it
> enters the archive. And the release manager would have to decide
> whether this change should make it into the actual release, the
> obvious advantage being a single 2.4 kernel for all archs.
Yeah, well, d-i is difficult, but indeed this can happen.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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