[SM-Discuss] News regarding the upcoming 0.10.0-test ISO
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Thu Jun 26 13:54:25 EDT 2008
Quoting flux <flux at sourcemage.org>:
> Real life is slowing me down, but I'm still chugging away on the ISO. It
> has also been slowed down, because there will be some slightly new
> developments for the ISO.
>
> The "short list" of major differences between the soon-to-be-released
> ISO and the previous devel release are as follows:
>
> 1) More drivers built as modules instead of builtin
> 2) Use of udev in the ISO's own initrd
> 3) Autodetection of hardware on bootup (limited?)
> 4) Some other (minor) bugfixes
>
> Essentially, implementing 1 causes a requirement for 2, and implementing
> 2 has the nice side effect of 3. However, getting 2 working properly is
> causing some slowdowns, as implementing that is not trivial. 1 should
> serve as a bugfix for people whose PATA drives were either not detected
> properly or not detected at all, but this will need to be tested and
> reported on by those with PATA drives. The release can be expected
> within a day or two if all goes well from here.
Awesome, thanks Justin!
-Eric
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