Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
>
> > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 +0000
> > > > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <mmw@tiger-computing.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > > A while back there was an announcement that debian would be
> > > > > "updating" to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since!
>
> [...]
>
> > I have read that there will be an "etch and a  half" release that will 
> > include the 2.6.24 kernel (if it proves reliable). It is planned for etch 
> > r4, we are at r2 now so it looks to me that it will be some time yet before 
> > it is ready. My guess is 8 months or so, the key word there being guess.. 
> > :)
>
> We are at r3 already. See
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg00000.html

r4?

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.24-4.diff.gz

Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-486 (2.6.24-4):
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.24-1-486

Running it with ck patched to it: very stable.

uname -a:
Linux debian 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 17 13:32:11 CST 2008 
i686 GNU/Linux

Hugo