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authorKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2015-04-09 13:45:48 +0000
committerKarsten Merker <merker@debian.org>2015-04-09 13:45:48 +0000
commitb9909134f56ce8c665e069dabd9aee67c9edddb2 (patch)
tree15abbeea0171b857662838d3e445fd54b1d24ace
parentcc8a8e2eaa066dad964b87ab7d40939772e23188 (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-b9909134f56ce8c665e069dabd9aee67c9edddb2.zip
Kernel support for the IXP4xx platform will definitely be dropped in Stretch.
(see https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/04/msg00129.html)
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog4
-rw-r--r--en/hardware/supported/arm.xml2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f506505d6..aee50902a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ installation-guide (20150324) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
"Booting by TFTP" section.
* Add a "Console configuration" subsection in the "Booting the Installer
on ARM" section.
+ * Add information that the IXP4xx platform support in Jessie is limited
+ to dist-upgrades from Wheezy, that new installations are not supported
+ for the IXP4xx platform and that kernel support for it will definitely
+ be dropped in Stretch.
-- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:10:34 +0100
diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/arm.xml b/en/hardware/supported/arm.xml
index 52576883a..baf0e32d8 100644
--- a/en/hardware/supported/arm.xml
+++ b/en/hardware/supported/arm.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ supported by the &d-i;. It is possible to do a <quote>dist-upgrade</quote>
from Debian 7 to Debian 8 for existing installations, though. Due to the
low amount of RAM that systems based on the IXP4xx usually have, this
requires that swap space is enabled prior to upgrading. Support for the
-IXP4xx platform will probably be dropped completely in &debian; 9.
+IXP4xx platform will be dropped completely in &debian; 9.
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