Re: Pb with 2.4.25 kernel

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:36:04PM +0200, Wilfried Catteau wrote:
> Le Samedi 12 Juin 2004 04:22, Sven Luther a écrit :
> 
> > > > > I try to use the 2.4.25 kernel but at boot time, i have a problem
> > > > > with the Cyberstorm SCSI controler which works well in 2.4.22 (except
> > > > > for the cdrom). Here is the dmesg output:
> > > >
> > > > BTW, are you usingh the debian kernel apckage ? If yes, please fill a
> > > > bug repor,t if not, well, if you run debian give it a try.
> > >
> > > I use the debian woody but not their kernel package: i take the sources
> > > from linux-apus cvs repository and compile them.
> >
> > Bah. another one of those.Would you at least give them a try ( the one
> > in ssid/sarge though, we care little for woody at this point, altough i
> > pass lot of time building security upgrades nobody uses anyway ), and
> > fill bug reports if it doesn't work ? I took over maintainership, but
> > have no apus hardware anymore.
> 
> I tried the "kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb" package but it 
> doesn't work: i have this message from the bootstrap program:
> "unable to read exec header from kernel file".

Well, could you fill a (severe i think) bug report about this ? 

> Has someone already installed it to know if this pb is relative to my Amiga?

Well, nobody has even bothered to test it here, despite me asking for
this test. Keep in mind that some effort goes into maintaining the
debian apus kernels, both for unstable and testing (which should move to
2.4.26 or some common kernel for all arches) as well as security updates
of stable, so if nobody uses the debian kernel on apus, it may make
sense to remove it. Also, this would mean that there would be no
debian-installer support for apus in sarge. There is code, and i made
sure the installer is built, but nobody ever tested it, so ...

I somehow have the feeling that there are maybe 10 users left or less,
and that they don't really care about debian kernel level support, so i
wonder if the time spent on it (by me mostly) is worth it. If someone
from the apus community would step forward, and work with me to test and
fix the kernel, this would be great, and at least test the
debian-installer once.

Friendly,

Sven Luther