Re: updated kernel problem

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:30:04AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>it means that the kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc is in truth pmac only, and
> >>should better be named kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc-pmac or something such 
> >>?
> >>Or am i missing something ?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I have yet to see hardware-specific kernels on PPC, but I think it would 
> >be nice
> >to have at least some pre-built kernels for the iMac and also the iBook 
> >models.
> >
> >kernel-image-2.4.21-imac would be really nice and save users a lot of 
> >guesswork.
> >
> >As for the PPC patches, I am not familiar enough with them to comment.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> *cough* I think the phrase "I have yet to see hardware-specific kernels 
> on PPC" could do with some more thought ;-)
> 
> I have 3 PowerPC machines running Debian, none of them are from Apple, 

Ok, you are a good test case then, what kernel do you run, are they
debian provided kernels or self built ones ?

And in the later case, do you use the debian patches, or your own kernel
tree.

Friendly,

Sven Luther