I suggest that someone establish a test area which is apt'able and has room for all the slink released architectures.
If we're going to go so far as to update slink for the 2.2 kernel, we need to update PCMCIA as well. This is necessary because many many 1999 laptops will not work with the PCMCIA from slink currently (it lacks working CardBus32 support). I run the new PCMCIA utils (rebuilt for slink) on a slink box at home and it works quite well, so there's not critical interdependancies with APMd. But that's with the 2.2 kernel -- not sure if it would work with 2.0 kernel -- probably! The big unknown for a linux 2.2 and slink is other architectures. Personally, I have my doubts that the linux 2.2 kernel is more robust and stable than 2.0 for non-i386 architectures. Anyhow, hopefully we will allow the architecture team make their own determination whether to include 2.2 or not. Ideally, the slink update (call it 2.1-linux-2.2) would be agnostic about whether you're running 2.0 or 2.2, i.e., support both kernels. Next week, I will take an empty disk partiton I have and install a slink/sparc system there so I can help with the porting. But someone really needs to start asking around on the other porters, trying to get those folks to join this list and give impressions about our plans. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
