Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice
Grok Mogger wrote:
> Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of
> silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and
> security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the
> kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would make a lot of sense
> to at least just keep adding drivers even if the rest of the kernel
> remains frozen at 2.6.18 or whatever.
It seems the kernel fairy may indeed answer your wishes :-)
The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative
plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically
to add support for new hardware ... yay :-)
[1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/02/
See the section "Updates during the Etch Life Cycle".
Cheers
Nick Boyce
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