Bug#645308: tg3 broken for NetXtreme 5714S in squeeze 6.0.3 installer
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:44, Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> wrote:
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> Does the installer use a different kernel from what actually gets used
> in the installed system?
It ought to be in sync at install time but the binaries are different.
In installer we build the udebs using the generated binary from the
archive (will change for Wheezy)
> Why was a new tg3 introduced in a point release kernel in the first
> place?
...
On the point release, new hardware support has been add (as you can
see on the announcement) and regressions might happen even though
Kernel Team has asked for long time for tests to avoid them.
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