Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:56:05AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I guess oss4-dkms will be enough to take care of these users, hopefully it will reach squeeze in time. Hopefully not. OSS4 on Linux is part of the problem, not part of the

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? For instance, as I understand it, most other

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: The X packages will be able to use modprobe config files to enable KMS at run time as required. This is not for the kernel team to do. FWIW, this is done for intel in experimental, probably soon in unstable. For radeon the

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:39 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems to have changed: instead of an ABI we now have trunk. First I thought this was a bug, but

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:57 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems to have changed: instead of an

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently had a release with a 2.6.31 kernel? Do you know if there are plans to have a kernel with backported drivers, one

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently had a release with a 2.6.31 kernel? Fedora 12, Ubuntu

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: OSS --- This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be disabled for squeeze Done. with mechanisms put in place to deal with legacy users. Er, not sure. I guess oss4-dkms will be

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: OSS --- This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be disabled for squeeze Done. with mechanisms put in place to deal

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Vincent and others, On Oct 19 2009, Vincent Sanders wrote: IDE to libata decision -- Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their assistance with this transition. There are some

review - bits from the kernel team

2006-03-04 Thread maximilian attems
hello, i've added an first draft to the svn repo at trunk/docs. please take a look and add your input, hope fs or waldi can send it in mid next week. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]