Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry
On 4 Mar 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op ma 03-03-2003, om 23:45 schreef Branden Robinson:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:15:03AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > Le lun 03/03/2003 ? 01:36, Branden Robinson a ?crit :
> > >
> > > > To date, no kernels with the feature of sending Linux keycodes exist for
> > > > m68k-based Macintoshes.
> > >
> > > You should perhaps indicate the date and kernel version this refers to.
> >
> > If someone could clarify the situation with kernel 2.4 on m68k, I'd
> > appreciate it.
>
> There are actually some 2.4 kernels available for m68k, but due to an
> issue related to glibc[1] that started somewhere in the glibc-2.2 area,
> they don't boot.
>
> There used to be a bug report on glibc regarding that issue, which was
> rather quickly reassigned to the kernel-patch-2.4.7-m68k package. Since,
> to date, nobody ever solved the issue, the latter package has now been
> removed from the archive.
What's the real problem? I'm running 2.4.20 (from Linux/m68k CVS) on my Amiga,
with glibc-2.2.5-3? Or is this version glibc too old to exhibit the problem?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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