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Re: Announcing powerpc backport 2.6.12-6 kernel package for sarge



On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:36:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have made available backport packages of the linux-2.6 common kernels for
> powerpc for sarge. You will find all that is needed at :
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~luther/kernel
> 
> or the apt source :
> 
>   deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/kernel ./
> 
> These packages include :
> 
>   1) backported kernel-package, to be able to build the powerpc 2.6.12 kernels.
> 
>   2) backported udev, which is needed for 2.6.12 and beyond kernels. I
>   disabled the selinux support though, as it is not present in sarge.
> 
>   3) backported 32bit powerpc kernel packages. These are exactly the same as
>   the sid/etch ones (2.6.12-6), but i was forced to disable the 64bit
>   powerpc64 version, since there is no biarch toolchain in sarge. That said,
>   installing the sid/etch kernels would have worked just fine, so if you are a
>   64bit user, please download linux-image-2.6-12-powerpc64 from etch/sid by
>   hand.
> 
> Ok, i hope you all enjoy those.

I have done an i386 build of these packages for i386, without
modification

http://packages.vergenet.net/testing/linux-2.6/

-- 
Horms



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