On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > > Running a customized (stripped) little 2.6.31.1 from kernel.org under > > Lenny since Oct 3, on an old dual 550MHz i440BX board. Fairly stripped > > down install running a Postfix mail firewall and Lighty. Been running > > great, no issues. I've probably got everything stripped out that was on > > the kernel team's "buggy" list. ;) My vmlinuz is only 1.1MB and all my > > drivers (two--disk and NIC) are compiled in. I actually went so far as > > to strip module support completely out of the kernel. No initramfs, no > > this, no that. Pretty lean and mean kernel. > > > > -- > > Stan > > sounds cute. > > In fact I'm using the code from kernel org most of the time, because of the > exact same reason. Except stripping off a lot of code you don't need you > can optimize (fine tune) specifically for the machine you are using. > > But back to the topic. The 2.6.30 line was really buggy :-) at least for me. > But this (2.6.31.5) seems to be useful. isn't there some issue with the broadcom-sta drivers and .31 ? > > I'm using it on a notebook Dell D520 (lenny). > > regards > > -- "I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." - George W. Bush 01/27/2002 Charleston, WV
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