From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqgrC-0004En-8S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:36:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j680a1kU011257; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:36:01 GMT Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j680YMTT026400 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:34:23 GMT Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJA008CA9LDS3D0@l-daemon> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:34:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJA007509LDRD10@pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:34:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (S01060040d05c7881.rd.shawcable.net [70.65.13.216]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IJA001279LCW0@l-daemon> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:34:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:35:14 -0600 From: Joshua Baergen Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping bootsplash & friends from portage In-reply-to: <200507071933.16030.vapier@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <42CDCA42.1060500@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42CDB690.3000905@gentoo.org> <200507071914.22107.vapier@gentoo.org> <42CDB987.4090001@gentoo.org> <200507071933.16030.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050622) X-Archives-Salt: 24bf75e2-8bba-4512-bda9-dbe58b9d2fa4 X-Archives-Hash: 3529ade92e1019377d6559c5d48f22ab >>bootsplash works up to (and including) 2.6.8.1. >> >>The earliest patches in the fbsplash archive are against 2.6.8.1. >>So, we would be dropping support for those earlier kernels, but we don't >>really support kernels of such age anyway. >> >> > >i was wondering more about whether 2.4 is supported ? > > Looking to the bootsplash kernel diffs[1] it would appear that we have several 2.4.x kernels that could still have this patch applied. The exact versions are not there, but they could have been ported. Is this patch in any of the 2.4.x patchsets currently sitting in the tree? If not, there's no reason to keep the bootsplash packages since we don't have the kernel support in the first place. [1] http://www.bootsplash.de/files/old/ Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list