Re: Debian kernel 2.6.38-5

Thorsten Glaser
2011-05-08T13:06:14Z

Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:

> 1. The critical bugfixes will go in via v2.6.38-stable anyway,
> 2. The ARAnyM/NatFeat support will be in v2.6.39, which may be a
>sufficiently convincing argument for the Debian Kernel Team to accept
>it in Debian's v2.6.38,

Good news: one of my ARAnyMs will be compiling kernels for the next
full week or so, I think (CPU power provided by Thomas Goirand this
time, the other VMs run on boxen at tarent GmbH, if someone is in-
terested):

• Accepted linux-2.6 2.6.38-5 (source all i386) Ben Hutchings
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2011/05/msg00736.html

> 3. If there's anything left that you really need, please tell us, so
>"we" can get it in a good shape for v2.6.40.

Bad news: Christian T. Steigies has problems on real Amiga hardware:

> However, the current (TLS) kernels have problems with the ariadne2 network
> card, which, I think all Amigas here but crest have (ariadne1 in crest).
> I get error messages like this with 2.6.32 and 2.6.38
>
> eth0: mismatched read page pointers 4f vs 4c.

Does that ring a bell anywhere? That’s running 2.6.38-4 plus
my patches, I think, so I expect 2.6.38-5 won’t change this.

bye,
//mirabilos
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