On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Peter, > > It looks like events have caught up with us. There’s now a 4.5.0 kernel in > Debian testing and strong hints that the kernel in Stretch, when it’s > released, will be based on 4.6. So your reconfigured 4.5.0-rc2 kernel is > getting out-of-date.
OK no idea where that comes from. Last I saw the plan was to use an LTS kernel, and 4.6 almost certainly won't be one. https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2016/02/msg00626.html > Which raises a couple of questions: > > Is there any chance that your changes could make it into an official Debian > package? Seems unlikely to me — because it’s very hardware specific — but we > can always hope! > > Do you have plans to make a 4.6 based kernel any time? > > And finally, is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics > card I could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 that wouldn’t have the > problem? I don’t need anything fancy. Just enough to run a simple 2D mate > or xfce desktop. > > From all of us who have benefitted from your work, a big “Thank you!” -- Len Sorensen
