Re: Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:43:46AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100,
> Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700,
> > "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] slrnbu25d6.ugk.spam@home.bounceswoosh.org>:
>
> [...]
>
> > > AFAIK, 2.6 is still being tested. It's not a "production" release,
> >
> > ..the truth just changed: ;-)
> > finger @finger.kernel.org
> > [zeus-pub.kernel.org]
> > The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.0
>
> Just confirmed the rumor on slashdot;-). Would this stable
> version be as stable as the unstable early days of the 2.4
Last time I checked it, it was quite stable, although you probably
should give it some time yet unless there is a feature you really want.
> release? I fear that releasing 2.6 as stable would only
> "encourage" freesoft developers and the occasional company
> (e.g. nVidia and its binary-only 3D drivers) to stop supporting
> 2.4.
>
> My main concerns revolve around video and optical storage. I've
> read many horror stories about the ide-scsi stuff being "broken"
> in 2.6. Is this true? I've also read that devfs is now
> deprecated. In favor of what?
>
test11 ran my dvd/cdrw using ide-scsi quite fine do I don't think
its broken (I don't believe it would live test<n> stage without
ide-scsi as its a widely used interface.
As for devfs it does seem that its been deprecated in favor of udev
(this is from test 11):
Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is
unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations
use.
> Is there a definitive switcher's howto or readme (URI) I should
> consult? I'd usually use google for this. But as the issue's
> still new, I expect to get lots of false positives (including
> flamewar threads on the direction of kernel development).
>
Main things I saw that you would probably notice is that you need
module-init-tools since 2.4 modprobe doesn't work, different module
infrastructure. Also all mice are now repeated to /dev/input/mice,
including ps2 which is also repeated into /dev/psaux (I think you can
access them individually in /dev/input/mouse<n>
The make xconfig has also been changed quite a bit to use qt and there
is a new make gconfig for gtk.
On the surface, I believe most else will look the same (different
learning scheduler which should be somewhat faster and a preemptive
scheduler ...)
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