Re: xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-2 fails where 4.0.2-7puetzk worked
- To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
- Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>, debian-x@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-2 fails where 4.0.2-7puetzk worked
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:50:13 -0400
- Message-id: <20010920195013.A30093@nevyn.them.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>, debian-x@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <oa4rpxy7vu.fsf@arroz.onshored.com>; from adam@onshore.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:33:41PM -0400
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10109200901010.4594-100000@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> <oavgidyjp6.fsf@arroz.onshored.com> <20010920150941.A16465@nevyn.them.org> <oa4rpxy7vu.fsf@arroz.onshored.com>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:33:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I'd rather make a set of 2.4 install disks available than include
> > patches like this in our 2.2 kernel.
>
> It's certainly possible to change the boot-floppies over to 2.4
> kernels, but I doubt the wisdom of that. I recently tried to run the
> kernel-image-2.4-powerpc (2.4.8-1) and it wouldn't even boot my
> machine (hung after the RTC stuff). Not to mention that 2.4.8 is
> rather old. So I question the maturity of that. I certainly don't
> know of anyone testing the install system with kernel 2.4 on an array
> of PowerPC hardware.
I didn't suggest changing over, but making them available. I'm not
comfortable with the PCI patch, and this is the next best option.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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