Subject: Re: RS6000 and YDL2.0 or 2.1
From: Nathan A. McQuillen (nm@steaky.dhs.org)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 17:17:23 MST
For the record, for those of us whose understanding is still somewhat
limited, could anyone give a very rough sketch of which system functions
and executables are particularly kernel-sensitive, and which aren't, and
how this is or isn't reflected in the ability to run precompiled binaries
versus compiling and installing from source? I haven't seen this addressed
directly in any HOWTOs or books I'm aware of (probably because it's yet
another Very Bad Idea...)
I know I was running for some time with a much older kernel with YDL 2.0
packages installed and didn't really have any (well, many) errors, but I
didn't use XF86 until I also did a kernel upgrade. The relationship
between kernel, modules and libraries is still in the realm of black art
for me .
(BTW, I understand that this is an issue that could itself probably eat up
2 semesters of ECE classes... I don't hope for everything to become clear,
just maybe to get a little better sense of which versions of what need to
"match" for a system to run properly.)
Thanks,
Nathan
> I really don't know -- I just know that the answer given by TerraSoft
> folks before on this mailing list was roughly 'it doesn't work any
> more because we can't maintain it without money from IBM'.
>
> If you can work around installation hurdles, I'm sure most packages
> will work. You would probably need to compile a custom kernel, at
> the very very least -- I doubt there are any suitable for RS/6000 on
> the YDL 2.0 or 2.1 CDs.
> --
> Tim Seufert
>
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