Re: Again 2.4.X kernels and SS10...
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:53:33AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> > Exactly same things (and error) with 2.4.4. ;(
> This makes me wonder if a new released kernel isn't tested on all
> architectures. May be we should spread our knowledge about autobuild
> daemons in Debian to the kernel development team.
The stock linux kernel (as distributed by Linus) usually only supports
i386 and alpha out-of-the-box because that's what Linus uses. All other
architectures needs patches to get them to work, see the answers in
these FAQs:
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_4_6
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s6-6
> Seems to me that Linux-kernel development goes the wrong way :-(.
Oh no, it already works this way for years. It is simply not doable for
a single person to test a kernel release on all platforms. For example:
the ARM port currently supports 73 different wildly architectures. Do
you really expect Linus to test them all?
Erik
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