On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
> kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the
> current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
> 2.6.32.y.
>
> We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
> but there are so many interrelated changes to e1000e since 2.6.32 that
> this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of e1000e from
> Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
>
> git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git e1000e-test
>
> The kernel configuration files we use are at
> <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>.
>
> We would appreciate any help Intel can provide in testing this, and any
> advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
>
> I'll also be looking at doing this for igb later.
Full source and binary packages containing e1000e, igb, and other
backported drivers can now be found at:
http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will
have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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