Re: [Fwd: Re: [Th] Upgrade apport - jak rozumieć ten błąd?]

Marcin Bohosiewicz marcus at kernel.pl
Thu Apr 10 11:54:23 CEST 2008


On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jakub Bogusz wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:03:11PM +0200, Tomasz Mateja wrote:
>> Elan Ruusamäe pisze:
>>> On Wednesday 09 April 2008 21:25, Tomasz Mateja wrote:
>>>>> and instead of living out your feelings, report bugs what is wrong with
>>>>> 2.6.22 kernel (in lists or http://bugs.pld-linux.org/). 2.6.16 is at
>>>>> least three years old kernel. upstream is near 2.6.25 already. and th/ti
>>>>> do have 2.6.22 kernel, do you shout there too?
>>>> So what?
>>>> Why not upgrade glibc in ac to 2.7? and XFree to xorg - they are also
>>>> very old. This is STABLE so minor updates or security updates are
>>>> welcome. bugs.pld-... is not the place for this request.
>>>
>>> glibc = would break 2.4 kernel compatability (afaik already glibc 2.4 required
>>> 2.6.0 kernel), that has been accidentally already broken several times.
>>> intentionally broking it would be evil.
>>>
>>> xorg 7.0 = too much to rebuild with so less gain, and so far there's no binary
>>> incompatibility that i've encountered using X11 (aka xorg 6.9).
>>>
>>> and kernel update is needed to let ac live a little longer. as there's need to
>>> support newer hardware. it was considered dead already time it was released.
>>> and some major changes like updating glibc or gcc would mean changing the
>>> distro, i.e dropping some architectures and 2.4 kernel compatability.
>>>
>> What are the super-hiper features with new release of kernel??
>> Remeber - no xorg - no compiz - no fun - kernel upgrade wont help
>> Old glibc - new kernel - compatibility emulated - what new features?
>
> Usability with current hardware. Disk controllers, Ethernet adapters
> etc.
> Any volunteers to backport those new drivers/driver updates to 2.6.16?

new tg3
new ich9 intel
new 3ware
ipsec compatibile with 2.4

latest 2.6.16.60 is with my patches for new hardware.

And, 2.6.22 has ALL hardware modules that was in 2.6.16.60 ?
iptables is compatibile?
ipsec is compatibile?

M.



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