[Pkg-uml-devel] [VERY LONG - uml planning for etch] how to plan the future

[Mattia Dongili]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:09:46PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> * Stefano Melchior <stefano.melchior at openlabs.it> [2006-01-22 22:37:35]:
[...]
> > PS: I found out that rootstrap had been updated with a patch that includes
> > the support of devfs, even if originally absent.
> > This introduced, I suppose, the problem in creation the root_fs using this
> > pkg. It was introduced to support the use of 2.6 serie kernel.
> 
> i talked to mdz about devfs and he suggested an initramdisk to deal
> with kernels without devfs. I have not yet researched how this could

Oh, devfs is definitely obsolete and going to be removed in upstream
kernels. Do we really need to care?
Also, the guest kernel should only need the monolitic defconfig to boot,
is it correct?
Is it still the /dev/ubdN issue?

> off topic:
> 
> i will be in brixen from the 2. February to teh 4th. where in
> italy are you guys?

heh, Rome, pretty far from there :) Have a good time in Brixen (aka
Bressanone).
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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