Re: Kernel 2.4.2 - does this work on PPC?


Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2 - does this work on PPC?
From: Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 15:36:03 MST


"Paul J. Schinder" wrote:

> I just booted 2.4.2 on my Performa 6400 yesterday (after 40 days of
> 2.4.1).

Where did you get it from?

> 2.2.18 works from the kernel.org sources. The only way I've
> found to get a tree at the stable points of 2.4.x is to regularly
> rsync and then make a copy when the -pre disappears, usually a few
> days after Linus releases the .x. I don't know anywhere where you
> can get a working "stable" source tarball for 2.4.x, although Linus'
> 2.4.3 is finally supposed to work on ppc-linux, so the kernel.org
> source may work when it's released (or even now).

I tried the standard v2.4.3 but it was broken on PPC (missing a whole
lot of the PPC code).

Regards,
Graham

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