-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sokolovsky schreef: | Hello, | | On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:26:24 +0100 | Koen Kooi <k.kooi-oe7qfRrRQfcdWmXj+hCI//[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Hi, | | We've fixed a number of bugs in the stable branch and it would be nice | if users can benefit from that straight away, without having to use | the package manager. Up until this point there have been no big kernel | upgrades (e.g 2.6.x -> 2.6.x+1), only defconfig tweaks. | | So: | | Update release images with 2007.12-rX, where X >= 4 | | What do you think about this? | |> That's something I was thinking about as means to get out of the |> situation where both old bootloader and rootfs images for linux-hh |> devices are cross-incompatible with the new ones (to appear yet). But |> only when new ones ready. I think that we should prioritize package |> manager upgrades by all means, and use image upgrades only when package |> manager upgrades don't work smoothly.
It's not meant as an image upgrade, it's meant to improve the important 'first impression' new users get from angstrom. |> On the other hand, r0 went with pretty annoying 100% CPU usage bug, |> which would be nice to exterminate completely. So, overall 0 points |> from me. | | If you think this is a good idea, do we | want to shoot for -r4 (after testing), or do mentors want to get some | more bugfixes in and aim for -r5? | |> I'd like to bump to r5 right now, marking that linux-hh kernels now |> support kexec command line. Sure, please go ahead with that. | So, it would be Angstrom 2007.12-r5 and |> kernel 2.6.21-hh20-r13. Ones the new bootloaders are out, all before |> that would need to be nuked. (And all that because of thinko in the |> arm-linux kernel and/or kexec command line support patch, which |> bothers to put atags not where old kernels expect them). What do you meant exactly with 'bootloader', is that a bootldr replace, LAB, kernel+initramfs as first stage, kernel+initramfs as second stage, something else? regards, Koen PS: altboot is broken because it doesn't handle timed-out reads, so zaurus people can stop claiming there's a magical kernel version that solved it; there isn't - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go go away in december 2007, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHuAm3MkyGM64RGpERAjGdAJ9QPX7busiMFb9JTeNEUbfvY5c4hQCcDSuM SzMqI/rLU4gIemdr3G7p3S8= =UDgW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
