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Re: Changes for 2.6.25



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:43:28PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I intend to do the following changes to the linux-2.6 core before
> 2.6.25.
> 
> Generic:
> - Deprecate kernel-package method. It is still used for alpha, arm,
>   armel, hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, sparc. It will be removed after the
>   2.6.25 release to make it possible to use features like out-of-tree
>   builds.
> - Drop ext2 built-in exception for arm and mips.
> 

Could we have a waver for the versatile flavour on armel until support 
is added to d-i?

About mips/mipsel, I am not sure this is actually possible, as those
platforms are not using initrd and thus won't be able to boot without
ext2 support.

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