Hello, Le Lundi, 4 Avril 2005 08.41, Sven Luther a �crit�: > Hello, > > It seems as the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels which are sarge release candidates > are now frozen, and will be part of sarge as is, complete with all the bugs > and problems present in them, and maybe even some security issues which > will not be fixed in d-i, but only in testing/stable-security-updates, due > to the longish time needed for d-i to regenerate their kernel. > > I thus announce my intentions to stop any work on those kernels, and give > them over to the sarge security team and/or any other group of people who > will be handling stable kernels, and focus my attention on the 2.6.11 and > beyond kernels. > > I will shortly orphan those packages, but will not do an upload setting > their maintainers to q-a, as they should be maintained by the kernel-team > anyway, and i will not waste 24+ hours of build and bandwidth for such a > small change. > > 2.4 series will be dropped post sarge, at least as far as powerpc is > concerned, so it would be nice to have someone with interest in the > remaining 2.4-needing subarches to show up and propose patches for 2.6. > These are : > > o oldworld miboot refuses to work with 2.6 for some obscure reason, i got > it working three times in oldebourg, but it stopped working mysteriously, > and no positive report since then. well, miboot is non-free and currently > non-distributable anyway, so ... Maybe the quik-from-a-floppy work will > help us there. > > o apus kernels. There is some 2.6 work, which i will apply as a subarch > patch to 2.6 kernels in the future, and build. I have no apus box at the > moment though (altough i am getting a A(3|)000, but needs a powerup card > for it still. > > o nubus kernels. Those have been added to 2.4.27 kernels, but i have got > no report of their working or not. I heard there was willingness to work on > 2.6 nubus kernels, and i would greatly appreciate getting patches for them, > and people with interest for testing. > > All the other cases will work fine with 2.6 kernels, and there should be no > problem in dropping 2.4 for them. Anyone still running 2.4 kernels on > powerpc except for the three above cases needs to think it over seriously, > given the over one year now abandonement of upstream linuxppc developer of > the 2.4 branch. > > Plans on my part for 2.6 powerpc kernels are : > > 1) abandonement of the ppc32 power3 and power4 kernels in favour of ppc64 > variants. > > 2) migration to a common and single kernel package for all arches. > > 3) forward porting of the above mentioned patches and inclusion in the > main 2.6 kernels. > > 4) work on some way to move the serial console and other fbdev drivers to > modules which are loaded as early as possible from the ramdisk, to > further reduce the size of the kernel. > > 5) maybe start including some embedded kernels, depending on availability > of hardware and interest. > > Anything else needed for the powerpc post-sarge kernels, please comment > here. I'm just a debian-powerpc user... But I compile my kernel myself, and I can just tell you: KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK !
Thanks > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Best Regards Guillaume
