Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > I last compiled (with success) 2.0.36pre2 with "gcc version egcs-2.90.29
> > 980515 (egcs 1.0.3 release)" (according to /proc/version). That works
> > perfectly with ISDN and all, and stayed up for a month until I upgraded
> > sysvinit which then decided to run through all the init scripts etc ;-(
>
> Still, personally I wouldn't trust it. If I needed/wanted to compile a 2.0.x
> kernel with egcs, I'd apply the patches at
> http://www.suse.de/~florian/
> first.
I don't see how patching arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c and
arch/i386/kernel/ksyms.c will help the stability of a kernel running
on Alpha (which was the point here). If you do, please enlighten me :-)
Paul Slootman
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