Re: 2.6-test1 on ppc?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 16:44, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 1:10 pm, you wrote:
> > I have to admit that I'm rather
> > indignant about this "advice." (on this list, no less!)
>
> Me too. I'm not one to get indignant often, but what's the point of having
> ppc support in 2.6 if it's not actually a supported config? Better to
> declare that it's not supported, surely, and then maybe people would step up
> and do something.
Err, I'm not sure you'd have gotten even this far with 2.4.0-test1
vanilla... This is how Linux kernel development works, if you don't like
it, speak up on the linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list.
> > However, I have
> > been told via irc that woody doesn't have a sufficient tool chain to
> > properly compile 2.6.0-testx kernel yet
>
> I've heard similar, but the kind of compilation problems I get suggest
> untested code, not compiler incompatibities.
As others have pointed out, use the linuxppc-2.5 tree.
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