Re: Kernel update for Debian 3.0/mips

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:28:19PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:12:24PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > > Is it possible to update kernel-patch-*-mips before to include the appended
> > > patch or is this too late? It fixes the kernel stack corruption encountered
> > > on Personal DECstations which is triggered by e.g. debian-installer.
> > Is it also triggerd by boot-floppies? debian-installer is a sarge
> > issue only. Are Personal DECstations supported by the current (2.4.17)
> > kernel images? If not, can we delay this 'til r2, so we can give things
> > proper testing (the patch looks harmless enough on the other hand)?
> 
> It is triggered by boot-floppies - that is the main reason why we list the
> Personal DECstations as "unsupported by the current installation system".
> In theory, with a fixed kernel the tftpimage-r3k-kn02 should work on a
> Personal DECstation with serial console.

For me it would be tftpimage-r4k-kn04.


Thiemo