On Monday 29 January 2007 02:02, Joshua Rodman wrote: > This bug report was to let you know about the deficiencies in the > install experience. The not-yet-released debian will not be able to > install on already-7-month-old hardware. The JMicron controller is > common on all sorts of 965 chipsets.
We do appreciate that, but as I've said, we can do very little about it (except forward your report to the kernel team). > Should I have filed the bug report directly against the kernel package? > > The driver fixes are small, self contained and were applied in the > 2.6.19-rc series, so should be easily backported, and I argue that they > should be. If I should be the one to do this work, I'm open to trying > it. Yes, in principle kernel issues should be reported against 'linux-2.6'. Specific bug reports with specific information about upstream patches have a much better chance of being included than general "it does not work" installation reports. Note that a new kernel was uploaded a few days ago and that kernel is extremely likely to be the final kernel for Etch. I very much doubt that there will be another upload. We will be switching to this new kernel for the installer within the next week. I don't see an obvious mention of JMicron in the changelog [1], but maybe the fix was included in this latest upload. Cheers, FJP [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6/news/20070124T214022Z.html
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