Re: updated kernel problem
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:46:40PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:18:33AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > I'm quite aware that several people run linuxppc on Amiga and IBM hardware.
> > > However, judging by the flood of posts from various PowerBook and iMac users
> > > lately, I'm starting to think that pre-compiled kernels for those hardware
> > > configuration would be a time-saver for many users.
> >
> > The issue is not configuration, but patches. To the best of my knowledge
> > the "powerpc" configuration in the kernel image package boots on all
> > Macintoshes that that kernel supports. But the newest and latest require
> > different sources.
> >
> > And no one ever reported bugs to the contrary, which is about all I have to
> > say about that - if you don't tell maintainers, don't expect it fixed.
>
> Please see the following post, before claiming nobody ever mentioned it:
>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:53:10 +0300 (EEST)
> From: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: kernel compiling problems on iMac CRT
Please read my message again. That is neither filing a bug nor telling
the maintainer. I try to read this list, but posting to a list is no
substitute for dealing with the responsible people directly.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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