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Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?



On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:33:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:32:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > worth noting that no release candidate version of d-i has yet had
> > > working support for 2.6 on powerpc (test candidate 1 would have done but
> > > ran into a busybox-cvs bug, so it's likely that neither TC2 nor RC1 will
> > > have either), although daily builds have had it for some time and in my
> > > experience work well.
> > 
> > Huh ? how come daily builds have support while TC2 has not ?
> 
> busybox-cvs bug which couldn't get into TC1 because it broke netcfg;
> it's too big a change for TC2.

Bah, this doesn't bode well for changing over to 2.6, and i wonder if
this is good thing. As i understand this, there will be no major change
to debian-installer until sarge is released or something such ?

> > And as you know, i am actively working on getting the support for it
> > right.
> 
> As am I.

Yep.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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