Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:14:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 18 Jun 2004 12:30:41 +0200, Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Now, the question is, how do we automatically add the postinst_hook to kernel-img.conf, I don't think we are allowed to fiddle with

debian-kernel@lists.debian.org

2004-06-23 Thread Miguel Gea
Package: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386 Locale: LANG=ca_ES, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES

Re: [jblache@debian.org: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:22:49PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Dear Sven, How about including this patch ? I'd say the author (Derrick? Julien?) should try to get it included upstream. Beep is not a very high priority. BTW, i added both a new uhci fix Ok. and the marvell

Re: [jblache@debian.org: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Dear Sven, How about including this patch ? I'd say the author (Derrick? Julien?) should try to get it included upstream. Beep is not a very high priority. BTW, i added both a new uhci fix Ok. and the marvell driver to the svn repo, It's *huge*. Any reason why it should be

Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: i added [..] the marvell driver to the svn repo, Time for a subject change. We are talking about the following patch: URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powe rpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.7-2.6.7/patches/marvell-gigabit.diff Could someone

Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: How about including this patch ? This patch, by Julien Blache, can be found here: URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powe rpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.7-2.6.7/patches/powermac-beep.diff I don't see the missing console beep as an

Re: Bug#247455: The istallion module prevents the machine from restarting.

2004-06-23 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:58:13PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I do have that board installed. Currently I am using only 1 out of its 32 ports. That port seems to work. I do intent to use more ports. OK, can you please boot a clean system using init=/bin/bash, and then load istallion without

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:43:06PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: i added [..] the marvell driver to the svn repo, Time for a subject change. We are talking about the following patch: URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powe

Re: [jblache@debian.org: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Huge ? Yes, huge. Twice the size of the other patches combined. Twenty times if you omit the asfs patch from the others. Talking about the asfs patch, any progress getting it accepted upstream? Any reason why it should not be promoted to kernel-source in the

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:43:06PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: i added [..] the marvell driver to the svn repo, Time for a subject change. We are talking about the following patch: URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powe

Re: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:30PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Thanks for your input on this, Manoj. Yep. you loose the capacity of depending on a bootloader though, unless we do a quik | yaboot | mkvmlinuz | nothing kind of thing. Don't believe if

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:48:39PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: How about including this patch ? This patch, by Julien Blache, can be found here: URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powe

Re: [jblache@debian.org: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:18:36PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: times if you omit the asfs patch from the others. Talking about the asfs patch, any progress getting it accepted upstream? I've done the first pass of review but haven't now that you remind me I still have open question of the

Re: [jblache@debian.org: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:18:36PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Huge ? Yes, huge. Twice the size of the other patches combined. Twenty times if you omit the asfs patch from the others. Talking about the asfs patch, any progress getting it accepted upstream?

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:48:39PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: How about including this patch ? This patch, by Julien Blache, can be found here:

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:11:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/kernel/kernel/2.6/powerpc/trunk/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.7-2.6.7/patches/powermac-beep.diff?view=markuprev=786 Can find anything bogus with it, although it doesn't speak for ALSA that it's about

[RFC] dropping modular-swsusp

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I talked to Herbert and he doesn't plan to maintain modular-swsusp anymore, and given it's a huge maintaince overhead I'd like to drop it from kernel-source.

[RFC] merge 3ware 9xxx driver

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I'd like to add 3ware's new SATA RAID driver that is in the upstream BK tree now into kernel-source. the PATA 3ware cards have been a huge success and I'd like to make sure we support them in Sarge.

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:10:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ah, thanks for mentioning it, i will forward this info to Nicolas DET, but he will probably not have time to review this before next week, nor will i. The included

Re: [RFC] dropping modular-swsusp

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:26:08PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-23 15:21]: I talked to Herbert and he doesn't plan to maintain modular-swsusp anymore, and given it's a huge maintaince overhead I'd like to drop it from kernel-source. And

Re: [RFC] merge 3ware 9xxx driver

2004-06-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-23 15:22]: I'd like to add 3ware's new SATA RAID driver that is in the upstream BK tree now into kernel-source. the PATA 3ware cards have been a huge success and I'd like to make sure we support them in Sarge. Sounds good, there are an increasing

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:15:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:11:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/kernel/kernel/2.6/powerpc/trunk/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.7-2.6.7/patches/powermac-beep.diff?view=markuprev=786 Can find anything

Re: [RFC] merge 3ware 9xxx driver

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-23 15:22]: I'd like to add 3ware's new SATA RAID driver that is in the upstream BK tree now into kernel-source. the PATA 3ware cards have been a huge success and I'd like to

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:29:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Can find anything bogus with it, although it doesn't speak for ALSA that it's about 10times as much code as the beep support I added to the dmasound driver. But as Jens said please get it included upstream first. If it's

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:39:58PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:29:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Can find anything bogus with it, although it doesn't speak for ALSA that it's about 10times as much code as the beep support I added to the dmasound driver.

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Christoph Hellwig writes: 404 Oops. Fixed. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

PReP support (was: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!)

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: unbootable kernels on non pmac systems, Speaking of which. Anybody got a PReP system they don't need and could throw at me? As I said, I got a bunch of RS/6000 boxen recently, only to find out they're MCA. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Christoph Hellwig writes: On the junkjard. Done. Andrew Morton's -mm tree has a much better driver for the same hardware (and it's about a third the size) This should definitely go into kernel-source then. First because it's already in -mm, second because it's a chance of getting out

Re: PReP support

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of mkvmlinuz ? A calling script for a shell script? :) Something like : #!/bin/sh mkvmlinuz -k $2 -o

Re: PReP support

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of mkvmlinuz ? A calling script for a shell script? Something like : #!/bin/sh mkvmlinuz -k $2 -o /boot/vmlinuz-$1 Should do just fine. This is already there, right in mkvmlinuz itself.

Re: PReP support

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: Do you mean that by doing : mkvmlinuz /boot/vmlinux-2.6.7-powerpc 2.6.7-powerpc The right thing will happen, and that is creation of a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-powerpc ? Yes, provided /etc/mkvmlinuz/output sets the variable output to /boot/vmlinuz-$release.

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:27:08PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Christoph Hellwig writes: On the junkjard. Done. Hey, please, i protest. Why you remove the patch like that without even consulting me about this ? It is a patch which is well tested on the pegasos, and is even

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:08:06PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We don't give it 100% out of hand. We can still decide what to take and what not. But I'm very much against patches where the authors haven't even bothered to post them

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We don't give it 100% out of hand. We can still decide what to take and what not. But I'm very much against patches where the authors haven't even bothered to post them upstream because that will lead to a huge amount of patches we'll have to

Re: PReP support

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:43:16PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sven Luther writes: Yeah, fine, and will we set this by default, or not ? As long as we do not run the risk of accidentally clobbering any existing /boot/vmlinuz-foo files, fine. That could be done through more

Processing of cramfs_1.1-6_i386.changes

2004-06-23 Thread Archive Administrator
cramfs_1.1-6_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: cramfs_1.1-6.dsc cramfs_1.1-6.diff.gz cramfsprogs_1.1-6_i386.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon

initrd on installed kernels

2004-06-23 Thread Thibaut VARENE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was wondering why are we using initd on installed debian kernels. Let me explain myself: I can perfectly understand that initrd is needed for d-i, but, when I recently updated an x86 woody box to testing, upgrading its kernel to 2.4.26 debian,

Re: initrd on installed kernels

2004-06-23 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:21:23PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: I was wondering why are we using initd on installed debian kernels. That's needed in order to load on demand rootfs-related modules (i.e. fs and block devices modules). -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: initrd on installed kernels

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:21:23PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was wondering why are we using initd on installed debian kernels. Let me explain myself: I can perfectly understand that initrd is needed for d-i, but, when I recently

Re: initrd on installed kernels

2004-06-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Thibaut Varene writes: I didn't pay much attention to that at that time, knowing it was the new default for debian kernels. But, I started giggling when I realized the total boot time (time before first login prompt) of the box was almost tripled (that's a P2 400). How big is the

Re: Bug#247455: The istallion module prevents the machine from restarting.

2004-06-23 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:51:11PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:58:13PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I do have that board installed. Currently I am using only 1 out of its 32 ports. That port seems to work. I do intent to use more ports. OK, can you please boot a

Processed: Debian bug 254962

2004-06-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: submitter 254964 ! Bug#254964: ifup for eth0 not working with kernel-image-2.6.6-1-386]] Warning: Unknown package 'kernel-image' Changed Bug submitter from William R. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] reassign 254962

Bug#255903: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7: Machine check exception

2004-06-23 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7 Version: 2.6.6-1 Severity: important Every once in a while I get a message similar to the following on the console and in /var/log/kern.log: Jun 23 16:15:35 localhost kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Jun 23 16:15:35 localhost kernel: Bank

Re: kernel-source 2.6.7 packages pending upload

2004-06-23 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:31:17 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: [...] So, William, is it alright if I upload the following to unstable? URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-source/ Regards, Jens. FYI, kernel-image-2.6.7-i386 builds fine w/ these kernel sources, as long

Re: kernel-source 2.6.7 packages pending upload

2004-06-23 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:31:17 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: [...] So, William, is it alright if I upload the following to unstable? URL:http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/kernel-source/ Regards, Jens. On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:25:34PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: FYI,

Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:52:35PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 11:34, Sven Luther wrote: I am a bit sick of this tyranic rule on the powerpc package you are taking, not really caring about non pmac packages, and arbitrarily taking functionality away without

Re: Add back beep support to snd-powermac]

2004-06-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:00:54PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Christoph, i am not really sure i care all that much for this please let's it included upstream first philosophy. It let the control over what we will have or not in the debian kernel totally out of our hand, which