Bug#241497: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody->sarge upgrades
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:08:25PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:54:38PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:31:55PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > > As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install
> > > a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge
> > > (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of sarge). I've tried to use the
> > > available information to provide the needed files for these kernel
> > > upgrades.
> > > To my knowledge the affected machines/architecures are currently
> > > hppa64, sparc sun4m (only some of them) and 80386.
>
> > It's all hppa machines, not just hppa64.
>
> Then why does the libc6 preinst say that the minimum kernel is 2.4.17 for
> parisc, and 2.4.19 for parisc64? If this is an error, it will need to be
> reconciled before release.
It is not an error. I submitted the patch. Userspace requires a 32-bit
kernel of atleast 2.4.17, and a 64-bit kernel of atleast 2.4.19. The
64-bit code has some orthogonal issues that took time to fix.
Both could be made to require 2.4.19, and infact the upstream glibc
patch set the requirement to 2.4.19.
c.
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