Re: 2.4.x compile on SPARC?
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:52:10AM +0200, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> Mandi! Erik Mouw
> In chel di` si favelave...
>
> > Linux-2.4.x is currently broken for Sparc32 because it doesn't have
> > a maintainer. Please use linux-2.2.x.
>
> Uh. This is ``official''?!
Well, that's what Dave Miller says on the linux-kernel mailing list:
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Rafael Diniz <rafael2k@terra.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:32:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4 doesn't work in Sparc IPX
Rafael Diniz writes:
> Why kernel 2.4 doesn't work in Sparcs IPX?
> It's a good machine and I want to continue to use Linux on it...
So please continue to use 2.2.x kernels until we get someone
to maintain the sun4c port in 2.4.x.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
I'd call that quite official :)
Erik
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