Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-01-10T16:33:19Z

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Dave Jones wrote:

> There's still a boatload of drivers that don't compile,
> a metric shitload of bits that never came over from 2.4 after
> I stopped doing it circa 2.4.18, a lot of little 'trivial'
> patches that got left by the wayside, and a load of 'strange' bits
> that still need nailing down (personally, I have two boxes
> that won't boot a 2.5 kernel currently (One was pnpbios related,

I had a problem with PCI init, pnpbios ordering at some point, but i
haven't tried a kernel with pnpbios in a while.

> other needs more investigation), and another that falls on its
> face after 10 minutes idle uptime. My p4-ht desktop box is the only one
> that runs 2.5 without any problems.

Thats interesting, i have a laptop experiencing the same symptoms, i'll be
looking at it over the weekend.

Zwane
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