Re: New kernels

[Christopher C Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 Brett_A._Letner@notes.up.com wrote:

> Does anyone out there use development kernels on a regular basis?

I do.  I use 2.1.72 normally, but flop up to 2.1.BleedingEdge to test
things or recompile 2.1.x-based packages (pciutils, etc).

> I seem to recall that 2.1.x kernels don't need to be patched under alpha
> Linux, is this correct?  Just download the source and compile?

Yep (assuming you configure too ;-)).  Dpkg has a problem with the newer
kernels (after 2.1.82 I believe), but it does work.  You just have to be
patient and/or use --force-overwrite alot with it.  There are a few of us
working on a permanent fix for this right now, so it shouldn't be long
before we get a fixed glibc package to handle this (along with a kernel
patch upstream).

> I've been thinking about trying to get the kernel portion of GGI to work
> and they suggest using the latest kernel (because it contains fbcon?).
> Has anyone done this?

I haven't tried this...have been too busy otherwise compiling every
package I can get my electronic mittens on :-)

C