Re: recommended kernel version for Netwinder?
On tis, 2003-12-30 at 21:34, Ron Golan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:36:39PM -0500, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:13:21PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > > I had major stability problems when I tried 2.4.19 on my Netwinder (like
> > > uptimes in hours, vs. months with 2.4.16). The main kernel-related
> > > things I'm doing with it are using the Debian ipmasq package and running
> > > X in a chroot; aside from that, just standard desktop/server stuff.
> >
> > There were some serious IRQ problems in 2.4.19 before 2.4.19-rmk7,
> > maybe that explains your problems?
>
> I'm having good results with 2.4.19-rmk2
>
> rgolan@harm:~$ uname -a
> Linux harm 2.4.19-rmk2 #1 Sun Oct 13 19:06:26 PDT 2002 armv4l unknown
> rgolan@harm:~$ uptime
> 12:32:10 up 198 days, 23 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
I use my NetWinder as a firewall, server type of thing. It's running
2.4.19rmk2 quite nicely.
johan@six:~$ uptime
00:54:01 up 121 days, 3:54, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.10
P.S.
I compiled my own kernel.
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