Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 14:26:29 -0700 | From | Ian Eure <> | Subject | Re: Observation and questions |
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Gary Anderson wrote: > > Well, we have (or had until recently) work being done on three different > kernel trees: > 2.0.37 (Thanks, Alan !) > 2.2.x (Up to 2.2.9 now ?) > and > 2.3.x > > All at the same time, I think. (And this is just the 'mainline' kernel > trees.) > > Now for the questions: > 1.) Was a final 2.0.37 ever released (Last I checked we were up to ac-12, > I think). > No, 2.0.36 was the last `final' 2.0.xx kernel release. there should be a 2.0.37 when it's various issues get sorted out.
> 2.) For the time in the future when I want to go to the 2.2 kernel (It > seems, from reading this list, to have yet a few bugs^H^H^H^H....errrr > 'unresolved features') is there a "victims list" of things that need > to be replaced/removed/upgraded in order to go from 2.0.37 to the > latest 2.2.x kernel ?? > See the Documentation/Changes file in the 2.2.x source tree.
That said, I was able to switch from 2.0.xx to 2.2.xx without breakage and without package upgrading on my Debian Linux 2.2 system. Debian has a faster development cycle than other Linux distros though, and there was work to prepare it for 2.2.x while still in the late 2.1.xxx kernels. YMMV.
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