FC2 Test 1 - rescheduled

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:50, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:38:55PM +0100, Lorenzo Luconi Trombacchi wrote:
> > 
> > A new kernel will be released with this unofficial version?  The last 
> > kernels released have a Kernel Panic problem (I wrote
> > an email some days ago with the kernel panic message). I tested the last 
> > kernels on Athlon64 with Asus K8V
> > mainboard and on APPRO Dual Opteron and I always got  a Kernel Panic 
> > message. At present Athlon64 is working fine with
> > 2.6.1-1.47.
> > 
> Yes, a newer kernel revision will be included, and it does boot on AMD64.

Yup. You'll have to. iirc, 1.66 is what we're including in i386 test1,
and you'll need at least 1.67 to get it to even boot, as there was a one
liner (now included in mainline) that meant it blew up really horribly
during boot on amd64.

FWIW, I'm trying to test each update on my hammer to make sure it still
boots each time too, but some days I just get too bogged down to do
complete testing (and hey, thats what users are for right? :-)

Things are looking pretty decent on amd64 these days, even without
any extra amd64 specific patches, which is good.

> Not officially a seperate roadmap since after test1 for FC2, the AMD64
> roadmap should be the i386 roadmap.  It should have begun with test1, but
> as Dave said, there were other issues, and it got bumped. With the devel
> tree being used for updates, once the unofficial test1 is released, we
> should remain in sync with i386 from that point forward.

Not tried an amd64 install from rawhide yet. Might give that a go
tonight. It should be in a pretty decent state right now.

	Dave