Dan, I'm told that the standard kernel-image-2.4.16-* for the powerpc subarches are compiled with devfs. Is this true?
Unfortunately boot-floppies doens't currently support devfs. Colin found an issue with parsing of /proc/partitions, but I'm afraid that's probably just the tip of the iceburg. Getting devfs support into boot-floppies would set us back at least 2 months. Normally it wouldn't matter since boot-floppies wasn't using 2.4 kernels for powermac for instance, but I'm told that the new Mac require the 2.4 line. So at this time we're putting some effort into a pmac-2.4 subarch for boot-floppies. I don't want to leave all those people with the new Mac hardware without the ability to install Debian. We do already support 2.4 kernels, but it would be a lot easier to get this new pmac-2.4 subarch going if we didn't have to also contend with devfs. So -- do you think your images could perhaps be provided without devfs? Or, perhaps we should use the benh patches as a set of 2.4 kernel images for powerpc, trying to update and improve that? -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
