On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:23:25PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As you probably know, the 2.6.13 kernel is out, and we are facing some > > problems > > with packaging it for Debian. A major change compared to 2.6.12 is the > > discontinued support for devfs, which, I understand, renders current > > initrd-tools unusable. As I see it, there are two major problems which need > > to > [...] > > Talk to jbailey before making any decisions about this, as he has the best > grasp on initramfs. I believe maks was also working on this. I'm told that > there are currently some issues with other archs and initramfs (ie, oopsing > during boot), but this is to be expected as we (debian) will probably be > using it on untested platforms. It's broken on sparc, at least.. > > FWIW, I'm all for initramfs; it moves logic/magic out of kernelspace into > userspace, and sounds like it will allow us much more flexibility wrt > early userspace stuff.
klibc is about to be uploaded to the archive, was rejected due to minor build issues. (as bonus will integrate newer upstream) as next step an initramfs-tools upload is planed for that week. -- maks ps we could simply reenable devfs in 2.6.13, as only the Makefile snippet was removed, but that's not a long-term option so better have our newer tools tested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
