Re: 2.6-test1 on ppc?
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:53:48PM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 14:02:03 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Not having tried to compile any recent Linus kernel on powerpc or
> > elsewhere, I might be wrong, but from my experience it's always been the
> > case that different architectures each had their own development trees and
> > their own (rather small) development communities. It's always been up to
> > you to figure out where to get cutting edge kernel sources, and to deal
> > with problems yourself as they show up. Advice like 'better stick with
> > 2.4.21-benh' might just mean that - unless you want to spend your time
> > fixing patch rejects or compile errors and risk kernel crashes, just use
> > the stable powerpc branch (which happens to be maintained by Ben).
>
> If the 2.4.21-benh kernel is so good, why is there a buggy
> kernel-image-2.4.21-powerpc package but no kernel-image-2.4.21-benh
> package in Debian?
Because it is the 'stable' kernel ? Seriously, you find
kernel-image-2.4.21-powerpc package to be buggy, what bugs are you
exactly speaking and did you fill bug reports for them ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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