[SM-Discuss] News regarding the upcoming 0.10.0-test ISO
flux
flux at sourcemage.org
Thu Jun 26 16:27:23 EDT 2008
Eric Sandall (eric at sandall.us) wrote [08.06.26 13:54]:
> 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
>
Oh, this should also (in theory) speed up the boot-time of the ISO as
well. Of course, everyone can test that empirically after I release it.
I've run into a few hiccups, but I'm working those out. If it goes well,
I'll release sometime tonight.
--
Justin "flux" Boffemmyer
Cauldron wizard and general mage
Source Mage GNU/Linux
http://www.sourcemage.org
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