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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:47:13PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
* Steve Langasek wrote:
The DS15, DS25, DS45, and ES47 alpha systems require a kernel built
with LEGACY_START_ADDRESS=n. Some MILO-based systems, however, can't
boot *without* LEGACY_START_ADDRESS being set. Please add another kernel-image variant so that Debian can properly support both types
of systems.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/08/msg00012.html
Should we fix this for sarge? I suppose the d-i people will kill us
when we introduce a new flavour for the 2.4.26 kernel-images.
It shouldn't hurt anything if you make the change before sarge, but I
don't expect the TITAN systems to be supported for 3.1r0.
The conundrum is that I think "generic" would be a better fit for the
packages with LEGACY_START_ADDRESS=n, but this could cause upgrade
problems for users currently using the -generic images on MILO-based
systems that could have been installed from woody. It's probably best
to make this change coincide with a package name change so that systems
don't break on upgrade -- either the introduction of 2.4.27, or the
kernel flavor rename that I understand you have pending.
Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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