On 02/05/2018 01:56 AM, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: > Now that we know how to build a bootable kernel for such machines as ours > (rx2620 with Madison CPU) and probably Daniel Kasza's rx2600, can such an > update be > published for wheezy?
No, it's not possible to publish any such updates for Wheezy on ia64 as this architecture is not part of the LTS program: > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > Perhaps, an additional variant of linux-image-mckinley built with gcc-4.4 > (4.4.7) present in wheezy? As a workaround for this bug. We are currently bootstrapping Debian buster/sid for ia64 with about 9500 packages out of 12000 packages already being built. I don't see any reason to provide kernel updates for Wheezy given these circumstances. > And what about an updated installation image? Not for Wheezy. I will create one for Debian buster/sid once I find the time though. But that won't happen before the package src:linux has been fixed on ia64 so that it builds on the buildds. > So that people trying to install Debian on such a machine would succeed not > only of they take the Debian 6 > (squeeze) image (which is definitely not the first thing they would try when > searching for an installation image), but so that Debian 7 (wheezy) images > (more > likely to be found by them) would work for them, too. I don't want to encourage people to install software which has been long out of support. People should either wait for the new installation images for buster/sid or use some of the workarounds suggested by other people in this thread. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913