Horms wrote:
Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people
are.
I am one of the people who do work on 2.4 for debian,
I won't raise the hands of others.
Personally my focus is 2.4.27, because that is what will go
into sarge and right now I don't have the time to do
2.4.2
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:18:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote:
> > 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian
> > shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet,
> > in my opinion.
>
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote:
> Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't seem
> to be easy. Another one is the ISDN support. Hasn't that changed
> significantly, too? And what's going to happen with /etc/modutils/*,
> how much manual tweak
> By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an
> "unstable" system from 2.4 to 2.6?
An install of the appropinquate kernel-image package should do it. At
least it did for me on various ppc and an x86_64 installed as i386
system.
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:02:25 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more
> work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and
> converting from usbmgr).
Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't s
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 20:16:19 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any reason you're not using 2.6 kernels?
Yes. I'd like to switch to 2.6, but I suspect it would break
certain things. There are too many changes and I don't have the time to
go through this at the moment. Still I'd like to h
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote:
> 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian
> shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet,
> in my opinion.
Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people
are.
On 2 Jan 2005, at 7:16 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote:
The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now.
Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian
packages? And is there an estimation for when the kerne
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote:
> The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now.
> Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian
> packages? And is there an estimation for when the kernel-patch-*
> packages will support the new kern
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