Subject: Re: kernel upgrade
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 02:32:17 PDT
According to Adam Di Carlo:
> miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
>
> > Don't use 2.2.11. It's br0ken. 2.2.12 will be out on monday or tuesday.
>
> Miquel, can you elaborate on this? AFAIK, the Stable Release Manager
> was planning to do a slink update (either 2.1r3 or else 2.1.1 or
> something) which shipped default with 2.2 kernels, and suggested
> 2.2.11.
Check out the release notes for 2.2.11 and 2.2.12 at
http://www.linux.org.uk/
Note the comment about GCC, and the comment about floating point
on the Alpha ...
> He pointed out that 2.2.12 has some raid incompatibilities.
No, the RAID update didn't go into 2.2.12 after all. It was in
some of the pre-releases.
> I'd be interesting on your thoughts from the Alpha standpoint. Is
> someone from the Alpha team on the debian-release list to help
> coordinate on behalf of Alpha porters?
You'd have to find out how serious the floating point bugs
for the Alpha in 2.2.12 are ..
Mike.
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