Re: RFC and status report: Kernel upgrades for woody->sarge upgrades

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> As many of you may know on some machines users will need to install
> a current kernel before they will be able to upgrade woody to sarge
> (or better: glibc of woody to glibc of sarge). I've tried to use the
> available information to provide the needed files for these kernel
> upgrades.
> To my knowledge the affected machines/architecures are currently
> hppa64, sparc sun4m (only some of them) and 80386.

JFTR, all mips/mipsel subarchitectures are also affected. For those,
however, the sarge kernel without userland backports is good enough,
because modules aren't needed for basic system operation.


Thiemo