Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030305 07:30]: uniprocessor sun4m works on some patched 2.4 kernels Do you have some hints, which patches and what to be careful about? I've severel sparcstation10 available and plan[1] to test the new installer on them (network-booting is so nice with them).

sparc32 2.4 kernel (was Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS)

2003-03-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030305 07:30]: uniprocessor sun4m works on some patched 2.4 kernels Do you have some hints, which patches and what to be careful about? I've severel sparcstation10 available and plan[1] to test the new

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-04 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32? sparc32 isn't a single kernel architecture. From what I've seen on the debian-sparc mailing

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030301 22:20]: For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32? Architectures that are still having problems with 2.4 should probably be dropped. Since they

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 05:57 schreef Christian T. Steigies: But you are right, we should get 2.4 working instead of hacking devfs into or out of d-i... Sure, but in the mean time we have to make sure there's an installer for m68k that actually works. Else we could just as well shut down all m68k

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 00:16 schreef Petter Reinholdtsen: [Wouter Verhelst] As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now,

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
But you are right, we should get 2.4 working instead of hacking devfs into or out of d-i... Sure, but in the mean time we have to make sure there's an installer for m68k that actually works. Else we could just as well shut down all m68k buildd's, as it will not be worth it anymore. It

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I have been away from using sparc, but my question would be is there much sparc32 kernel hacking going on? Is 2.4.x usable on sparc32? Architectures that are still having problems with 2.4 should probably be dropped. Since they aren't

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:00:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:16:09AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic

m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while DevFS will only be