On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the > > 2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to > > forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider > > adding > > them to the debian kernel package, altough i fear what Christoph will have > > to > > say from a 1.8MB patch. Is all this really necessary ? > > > > For 2.6 I'm down to about 200KB, which I think includes some of the > original A1 files that I'm not using (e.g. _time merged into _setup as a > preliminary to using todc_time). This is without e.g. the floppy stuff > and the so-called dma fixes. If it can be made to work, I guess 200KB > or less (which is still rather a lot).
Ok. Still too much though, but i guess there is no chance of it changing. > > Bah, please don't go the same way this happened last year, and have a > > thought > > at providing the packages back upstream, altough i believe it may well be > > too > > late for the sarge release by now, at least for debian-installer which is > > very > > near the release. > > > > Friendly, > > > > Sven Luther > > > Agreed, if it doesn't eventually get merged then it isn't worth doing. > > I've heard the people at mai are issuing a binary 2.6.6 to their > testers, whoever they might be, but they aren't exactly communicative. He. > My own attempts on 2.6.7 are at a very early stage and have certain > difficulties (page-up in 'less' locks it, coming out of X gives a > non-legible screen, and the rtc stuff isn't working properly yet). What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ? > But then, I was never cut out to be a kernel hacker. Looks like I'm Bah, it is like that that one learns. I started the same way, cleaning up the old POP patches. > unlikely to get back to 2.6 before September, unfortunately. Too late for sarge anyway, but tell us when you have progress. That said, consider using the debian-kernel mailing list for this kind of stuff. Friendly, Sven Luther