At Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:43:53 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:54:45PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Hence, I believe that an upgrade directory is the way to go. The > > > kernel package should be maintained until sarge is released and > > > security patches added. > > > > Can you patch the i48 instruction emulator into a 2.4.19 kernel? > > It doesn't look exactly intrusive.. > > That would only help mips. > > I wonder what a mips machine would need with an i486 emulator. > > For IA-32 we would have to patch 2.4.18, but we cannot properly > update those packages in woody without people losing their > modules (would hurt a bit on laptops...). So that's a no-go.
So you don't have any intenstion to install new 2.4 kernel with i486 emulation patch. > Hence, the upgrade directory for real 80386 machines. What does it mean? If there is no plan to support upgrade-path for i386 machines, then I put the message "Use woody-proposed-updates 2.4.24 kernel" at libc6.preinst for 80386 machine. Then, we don't need to change the current woody kernels. I think it's the simplest fix. Is it OK? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
