Hi Dann, On Tuesday 08 April 2008 10:21, dann frazier wrote: > > now what the etchnhalf kernel has been uploaded, what are the next steps > > needing to happen, so that we have installation media and an > > announcement? > From the kernel side, we need to do another upload to fix some build > issues, upload the linux-latest for etchnhalf, and do work on any > out-of-tree modules we want to include. We talked with Daniel about > the conglomerate packages a while back & he had some ideas, but we > haven't restarted the discussion now that a kernel is available.
cc:ing Daniel as I havent seen a mail from him on this list and thus have no idea if he is subscribed... > I also want to look for any hw support backports 2.6.24 that would be > simple/good - bnx2 is of interest to me, since most of the machines I > deal with use it. waldi has a fw splitout patch based on the 2.6.24 > driver/fw, and I want to investigate either adding 2.6.24 support to > it, or backporting the 2.6.25 driver and using his existing split. > Of course, I expect the 2.6.24 kernel to be as supportive of new > hardware support after release as 2.6.18 was, so new hardware could be > added later. Ok, cool. As soon as I'm home and have rebooted with this .24 I'll check if firewire still works as with .18 :) > And the next d-i beta is needed to make it installable, but I believe > Frans's udeb for etch support has the missing pieces now. So there will be no new images with the etch installer and 2.6.24? > Oh - and we certainly want testers for the kernel. Maybe a post on > planet here would help. Definitly, I think. I assume not many people are aware that the kernel from etchnahalf is already available... do you want to do this post, should I? Of course, anybody can do this. Probably the more the better ;-) > > Anything I can do to help? > We need to start drafting a release note of sorts for users that can > go out with (or as part of) the point release announcement. I can > start a draft, but would certainly want help there. Count me in. On the wikipage or where? > The SRMs are working on an oldstable update first - putting sarge to > bed before the next etch update. Other than that, I don't know of any > blockers, but if they appear they should appear in the TODO here: > http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html Will check as soon as I have network again... > > regards, > > Holger, installing the kernel atm... > great! havent rebootet yet, just resumed with my old one... regards, Holger
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