Re: [PATCH] m68k: handle Atari interrupts in multi-platform kernels

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hello Thorsten,

> Michael Schmitz dixit:
>
>> Sorry, that one's unparseable on any Linux system I have access to.
>> When did Debian switch to xz as compressor in archives?
>
> Support for it was in squeeze, and first packages begun to
> use it shortly afterwards, so for years. I think I even saw
> it being used before squeeze, for leaf packages such as -dbg
> ones or those with huge data.

I must admit I'm using Ubuntu LTS releases mostly, so 'years' might be 
the right ballpark.

> On the other hand, to actually *boot* a system successfully
> with this kernel you need an initrd, which requires a system
> up to date as of roughly end of 2012, anyway (due to the
> initramfs-tools package and the versions of the packages
> that are actually needed to be put *on* the initrd, and due
> to the initrd being expected to be xz IIRC). So I'm afraid
> you need to boot into at least Linux 3.2 first - images are
> at http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/3.2.35-2/ and
> also require xz to unpack already, but that can be done on
> any Unix box (even BSD) using ar and tar; those are mostly
> monolithic and don't require an initrd to boot - then to
> dist-upgrade your system to latest unstable, at which point
> you can apt-get install the 3.10 kernel.

I assumed the initrd was pre-built and included in the package. Silly 
of me.

Much easier to integrate the patch in question into my 3.10 git tree.

Thanks,

	Michael


>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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