Re: 2.6.11-1 status, ready for an upload this WE ?
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:50:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have looked at the 2.6.11 kernel status again, and it seems to me that from
> the remaining TODO items of the 2.6.10->2.6.11 porting, we had the following
> things still on TODO :
>
> 1) the ia64 patch. Those will be dropped and new patches need to be
> provided. that can happen post -1 though, especially as there was no
> activity from the ia64 kernel guys yet.
>
> 2) tg3 firmware pruning, and other stuff relative to the non-free firmware
> issue.
>
> And naturally any other stuff we would see happening, but none are really
> important as to block -1 i think.
>
> So i would like that we aim at a 2.6.11-1 upload somewhen this WE, maybe on
> sunday, does this sound possible ? Who is ready to upload 2.6.11-1
> kernel-images ? I will be able to provide powerpc images together with the
> kernel-source upload.
>
> Also, since this is not a sarge candidate kernel, the consensus on irc seems
> to be to not continue with the firmware module pruning, but to drop the
> modules altogether, and package them in non-free.
>
> I would suggest that we go at this in two ways, with maybe a temporary
> non-freeness in main :
>
> 1) we package the plain 2.6.11 as provided by upstream in main and upload
> it. Those non-free firmware blobs are for the most part in main already, and
> it seems the RM (well ex-RM but he was RM back then), said that it was
> acceptable for sarge, so ...
Doesn't that mean that the non-free bits will live in the orig.tar.gz
forever? Is this a problem? If not is it a problem not to prune them
from the tree later, rather just not compile them?
--
Horms
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