Re: Moving forward with the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:02:40PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:31:22PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > 
> > > On the topic of Sid, I think we need to keep 2.4.27 there for now.
> > > I've been told that the s390 installer works it, and its needed
> > > for some m68k flavours (mac users who want a working keyboard IRRC).
> > 
> > Mac users who want a working keyboard have to use 2.2.25, there is no
> > working 2.4.x kernel for Mac, where as 2.6.12 boots, works, but does not
> > allow you to use keyboard or mouse. 
> > 
> > 2.4.27 is needed on m68k for all but Amiga it seems, since Amiga is the only
> > flavour that works with 2.6, afaik. I have reports, that MVME167 and Atari
> > do not work, I would not wonder if the other VME flavours have difficulties,
> > too. No reports so far for Q40, Sun3, or HP, but if the other flavours were
> > fixed, I wouldn't mind ignoring the unknown flavours.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:36:31PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> > * Horms wrote:
> > > I've been told that the s390 installer works it, and its needed for
> > > some m68k flavours (mac users who want a working keyboard IRRC).
> > 
> > 2.4.27 is also still needed for the alpha installer.
> 
> Thanks for this info. So far we have:
> 
> 2.2.25
>   needed: m68k
>   not in archive: other
> 
> 2.4.27
>   needed: alpha, m68k (2.6 only works on amiga), s390

mips, mipsel as well.


Thiemo