On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:13:55PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series > > 2.6.32.y. > > > > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, > > but there are so many interrelated changes to tg3 since 2.6.32 that > > this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of tg3 from > > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/debian-linux.git > > netdev-test > > > > The kernel configuration files we use are at > > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/> (note, this site > > will be unavailable for the next few hours). > > > > We would appreciate any help Broadcom can provide in testing this, and > > any advice on changes that should be added or reverted. > > Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported > drivers can now be found at: > > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ > > I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will > have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away). > > Ben.
Hi Ben. I'm going over the changes right now, and it looks like there are a lot of critical fixes that are missing. Standby and I'll try to generate a list of patches to include. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
