Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:06:50PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:46:18PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > Le lundi 03 octobre 2005 à 18:01 +0900, Horms a écrit :
> >
> >
> > > What is the status of replacing initrd. Do we actually have a solution
> > > that works across a wide range of architectres? Wide enough for
> > > an upload to experimental? Wide enough for unstable and testing?
> >
> >
> > initramfs-tools is test on i386, ppc, amd64, and sparc. ia64 are having
> > issues that I will start tracking again when Breezy releases (I've just
> > run out of time for now), but both appear to be solvable.
> >
> > On i64, the inflate code misreads the magic number, I suspect that
> > get_byte is behaving poorly.
> >
> > On hppa, I am getting a segfault in run_init and an lseek error in
> > fstype. It's probably something simple like a register that needs to be
> > setup.
> >
> > I have not tested on mips, mipsel, arm, m68k, s390 or sh. klibc failed
> > on mips and mipsel, which isn't promising. It compiled on s390 which is
> > surprising.
> >
> > We have a workaround for the compile error for sparc.
> >
> > The ports that I listed as known-working above are using initramfs-tools
> > for the Breezy release. So I generally *hope* they're well enough
> > tested. I'll let you know in a week ;)
>
> Thanks for the update, and good luck with Breezy :-)
>
> It sounds more and more to me that experimental would be a good place
> for 2.6.13 for now.
That was initramfs-tools, we should evaluate also yaird.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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