Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the
> > 2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to
> > forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding
> > them to the debian kernel package, altough i fear what Christoph will have to
> > say from a 1.8MB patch. Is all this really necessary ?
> >
>
> For 2.6 I'm down to about 200KB, which I think includes some of the
> original A1 files that I'm not using (e.g. _time merged into _setup as a
> preliminary to using todc_time). This is without e.g. the floppy stuff
> and the so-called dma fixes. If it can be made to work, I guess 200KB
> or less (which is still rather a lot).
Ok. Still too much though, but i guess there is no chance of it changing.
> > Bah, please don't go the same way this happened last year, and have a thought
> > at providing the packages back upstream, altough i believe it may well be too
> > late for the sarge release by now, at least for debian-installer which is very
> > near the release.
> >
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
> >
> Agreed, if it doesn't eventually get merged then it isn't worth doing.
>
> I've heard the people at mai are issuing a binary 2.6.6 to their
> testers, whoever they might be, but they aren't exactly communicative.
He.
> My own attempts on 2.6.7 are at a very early stage and have certain
> difficulties (page-up in 'less' locks it, coming out of X gives a
> non-legible screen, and the rtc stuff isn't working properly yet).
What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ?
> But then, I was never cut out to be a kernel hacker. Looks like I'm
Bah, it is like that that one learns. I started the same way, cleaning up the
old POP patches.
> unlikely to get back to 2.6 before September, unfortunately.
Too late for sarge anyway, but tell us when you have progress. That said,
consider using the debian-kernel mailing list for this kind of stuff.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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