Re: Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

dann frazier wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:50 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Horms wrote:
> > >   ia64: version in Sarge: 2.6.8-12
> > >   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/ia64/kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> > 
> > Will -14 will be an ABI change from -12 or not?
> 
> Yes, it should.
> 
> Current status
> --------------
> * Sarge has a -2 ABI for ia64.
> * Sid has the -3 ABI for ia64.  The ABI changed due to both the
>   disabling of PREEMPT (for a security reason) and a security abi
>   change that occured in kernel-tree-2.6.8-14 that was reverted in -15.
> 
> So, -14 should either have the -3 ABI or a -4 ABI.

It's only the preempt change that actually changes the ABI then isn't
it?

Anyway, ABI changes remain problimatic for d-i.

-- 
see shy jo

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