Shipping modutils

[John]

LaMont Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:30:14PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
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>>Do we still need to ship modutils in base? Are there any supported platforms
>>that still need kernel 2.4?
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>>If not, then maybe it could be shifted to supported?
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>When I suggested this, I was told that we needed to support people
>installing with 2.4 kernels.  Having said that, I expect that ShipSeed
>would do the job nicely...
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I should mention that I have a couple of systems where ATA disk 
performance with 2.6 is significantly worse than with 2.4.

I have filed a Debian bug wrt my new Gigabyte mobo (SIS 748); I think I 
mentioned another in supplementary notes.

This system gets 50 Mbytes/sec on 2.4:
kowari:~# hdparm -t /dev/hda{,,}

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  110 MB in  3.01 seconds =  36.59 MB/sec

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  112 MB in  3.05 seconds =  36.78 MB/sec

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  112 MB in  3.03 seconds =  36.91 MB/sec
kowari:~#