Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2 - does this work on PPC?
From: Paul J. Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 14:50:07 MST
At 11:36 PM +0100 3/19/01, Graham Leggett wrote:
>"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?
rsynced from Paul Mackerras' rsync archive. It's no longer there;
Paul's is up to 2.4.3-pre4.
>
>> 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).
Have you tried Alan Cox's patches? He doesn't seem to have the "I
only give a damn about Intel" attitude that Linus has.
>
>Regards,
>Graham
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