Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >- Kernel 2.6 is still a moving target... And it will always be, so people should learn to deal with this. >- Some hardware is only supported with 2.4, for example older laptops > which need APM and don't work with ACPI. Also some non-i386 machines. What abou

Bug#348711: workaround

2006-01-29 Thread Jerome Robert
Here is a workaround: http://www.linuxvar.it/index.php/ATI_e_Kernel_2.6.15 And the package: http://xrunhprof.free.fr/debian/fglrx-kernel-src_8.21.7-1jerome_i386.deb Regards, Jerome

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Holger Levsen wrote: > * This is a blog entry I wanted to write for about six weeks now, but I=20 > was busy with other stuff. In December 2005 I got curious why 2.4.32 > wasn't packaged for Debian and investigated the situation a bit. > > There are several reasons why 2.4 is still in

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:30:04AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > - According to popcon, 6-7% of the i386 users have a kernel-2.4 image > installed. > How much of those are using it out of pure inertai, ond how many really need it ? > * Of course there are some issues which need to b

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2006-01-29 Thread Hinson Issac
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Processed: Clone 350325 to linux-2.6

2006-01-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 350325 -1 Bug#350325: Uninstallable on HPPA Bug 350325 cloned as bug 350482. > reassign -1 linux-2.6 Bug#350482: Uninstallable on HPPA Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `linux-2.6'. > retitle -1 [hppa] module xfs relocation o

Re: UML kernel define/config and arch/subarch

2006-01-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:21:34PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > Hello, > > as some of you already knows I'm trying to add the "um" subarch to build > UML kernels. It seems I had some (partial) success in merging UML kernel build but I needed some changes to the build scripts and there's still s

Re: [Pkg-uml-devel] UML kernel define/config and arch/subarch

2006-01-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
sorry for the long delay On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:21:34PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > Hello, > > [...] > > Any suggestion? > > > > make mrproper > make defconfig ARCH=um > make menuconfig ARCH=um > make-kpkg --arch=um kern

Bug#350482: [hppa] module xfs relocation of symbol freeze_bdev is out of range

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:51, Julien Louis wrote: > I notice that xfs filesystem is unusable during installation, i've > found in the log file those lines: > > Jan 28 20:55:24 modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting xfs > (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-parisc/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Invalid module > format > Ja

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Holger Levsen wrote: > > Even though 2.4 is moving very slowly nowadays (mostly security updates, > > very seldom new drivers are including), this is more work than needed, > > because every fix needs to be backported to 2.4.27 (and 2.4.

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:39:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Horms made a [2 presentation] about the kernel packaging in debian for > > LCA > > and gave two options: a.) support and backport fixes for 2.4.27 or b.) > > go > > with 2.4.32. Somehow he did not consider the option

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen [1] wrote: >     - it's not sensible to have powerpc and amd64 flavors, and probably >       others. So this kernel package will not be arch any. (Which is not >       really a problem, but unusual.) Probably hppa, ia64 and also alpha won't need 2.4 f

Bug#350510: loads ohci-hcd; breaks resume from software suspend

2006-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.48 Severity: normal On my laptop, a Fujutsu P-2110 lifebook, if I use softwre suspend (version 1; to disk), when resuming the initramfs loads ohci_hcd before starting the resume process. When the hibernate program then tries to load ohci_hcd (which does not show

Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060130 01:54]: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen [1] wrote: >>- Some hardware is only supported with 2.4, for example older laptops >> which need APM and don't work with ACPI. Also some non-i386 machines. Are there any cases, where you

CVE-2004-0887 in 2.4

2006-01-29 Thread dann frazier
Repoke. I think I'll go ahead and put this into our tree & revert if it causes problems. hey Bastian, CAN-2004-0887 is fixed in our 2.6.8: * [SECURITY] s390: Fix for local root exploit: Force user process back to home space mode in space switch event exception handler. (CAN-2004-0887) (

Bug#350482: [hppa] module xfs relocation of symbol freeze_bdev is out of range

2006-01-29 Thread Julien Louis
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I have cloned the installation report to #350482 and reassigned that to > the linux-2.6 source package for this issue. > > The user confirmed this issue is still there for 2.6.15. I'll leave it to > kernel maintainers to determine if t