On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 09:44 +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > Does that mean that the next Debian ISO installer will use Linux kernel > 5.5.13.1 or later? > > Because, if that is not the case, this bug is certainly not fixed at all > and must be reopened. > > To reiterate, the problem is that the official netinst ISO cannot > perform a network installation of the Debian packages due to its use of > a 4.x kernel that is lacking an ACPI compatible Genet driver. > > This means that the *installation* 4.x kernel (i.e. the default kernel > used by the installer, which, unlike the post installation kernel, is > not something that can be upgraded) must be patched with a retrofitted > Genet driver. [...] This is why the bug tracking system records which versions are fixed, and which are not. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams
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