Re: kernel patches and source
Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
> The only UltraSparc kernel image in Debian is compiled from
> kernel-source-sparc-2.2.1 (a CVS kernel with some additional patches
> added).
This is serverly wrong. The kernel-patch mechanism works and exists
for a reason; we do not need or want to bloat the archive with
redundant copies of the none-too-small kernel-source*.{tar.gz,deb}.
> As soon as the i386 guys get around to uploading 2.2.9 (which needs
> no patches to run on all sparcs), I'll fix this.
It's already there.
--
James
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