Re: official 2.4 debs for sun4cdm (was: Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 21:52:17 -0400,
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Because kernel 2.4.x is not stable on sun4cdm yet. You've noted that
> > already :)
>
> actually, 2.4.19 was behaving quite well on my SS20 (even in SMP mode)
> and LX. i'm running the dual-SS20 as my two-headed desktop, and it works
> better with 2.4 than with 2.2 (there were issues with the mouse that the
> kernel-upgrade solved). and the 2.4.20-pre11 image from rob seems to have
> fixed the last outstanding annoyance (problems with swap on SMP kernels).
> as far as i can tell from my desktop and firewall, 2.4.current on sun4cdm
> is no worse than on i386.
>
> could we please start to reevaluate the '2.4 is bad for sun4cdm' mantra
> and actually give 2.4 a chance?
I can support this, I have been running 2.4.19 sun4m SMP (SS20, dual)
and 2.4.20-preXX with various results, the 2.4.20-pre11smp that I use
off of Rob's site works fine as far as I can tell. Sure, it has bugs,
what piece of source code does not...
Cheers,
/ChJ
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