Re: preparation for 2.6.18-6 kernel upload on monday 20th of november 2006.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:23:34AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Moin,
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:36:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Hi, ...
> >
> > As you may know, or not, we are waiting for the abi-breaking 2.6.18-6 to be
> > uploaded for pushing the 2.6.18 kernel into etch.
> >
> > It seems 2.6.18.3 is announced for saturday, so this would mean a natural
> > tentative schedule of let's say monday the 20th of november 2006 as upload
> > date.
> >
> > Is there any comment on this ? Anyone has any particular stuff they would like
> > included before -6 is released ? Or otherwise comments on this tentative
> > deadline ?
>
> I'd like to re-enable building atari images for m68k, 2.6.18 with some
> patches is working on atari again and we might even haven two new drivers
> for network hardware (one of those is working on our uberfast Falcons
> already, they other one might, but we are still waiting for the hardware,
> that's how new it is). Unfortunately I am a little handicapped right now and
> I also managed to shoot down my atari, so it might be a little difficult to
> test, once I have the patches sorted out. This would not change anything
> with the existing m68k images, it would just (re-)add another one, which
> means we have to go through new, but we have to anyhow because of the abi
> change?
Well, if you can send the patches, and they build, they can be included, and
tested at a later time, and fixed if fixing is needed.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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