From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: handle Atari interrupts in multi-platform kernels Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:17:05 +1200 Message-ID: References: <201308092135.r79LZwL1013105@herc.mirbsd.org> <8612ec946622122a048ec3805a30fef5@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> <52101C34.8060404@gmail.com> <52108D28.1010405@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:61812 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768Ab3HSIRU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:17:20 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id kx10so4336964pab.27 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:17:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Thorsten Glaser Cc: Linux/m68k , debian-68k@lists.debian.org 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 > -- >> Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselves and not packaged >> with other products? > No, the only way I've seen them sold is for $40 with a free OpenBSD CD. > -- Haroon Khalid and Steve Shockley in gmane.os.openbsd.misc