On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:33:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I'd rather make a set of 2.4 install disks available than include
> > patches like this in our 2.2 kernel.
>
> It's certainly possible to change the boot-floppies over to 2.4
> kernels, but I doubt the wisdom of that. I recently tried to run the
> kernel-image-2.4-powerpc (2.4.8-1) and it wouldn't even boot my
> machine (hung after the RTC stuff). Not to mention that 2.4.8 is
> rather old. So I question the maturity of that. I certainly don't
> know of anyone testing the install system with kernel 2.4 on an array
> of PowerPC hardware.
I didn't suggest changing over, but making them available. I'm not
comfortable with the PCI patch, and this is the next best option.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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