Subject: Re: Please help me figure this kernel stuff out!!
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 07:50:14 MDT
Sorry if this has already been said. :) Generally Ben H.'s kernel
version is considered to be the best (2.4) kernel for PPC users. You can
obtain the latest version using rsync from rsync.penguinppc.org. Read
the man page for rsync, then do
rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh <target
directory>
rsync (if you are not familiar with it) has the benefit that it
efficiently discovers differences between your current code and the code
in the repository, which means that in the future when you update your
kernel source code, it won't require very much network traffic.
Bo
> I actually pulled this off for Linux 2.4.7
>
> I started with a config file that worked for my distro on an earlier version
> and worked it out from there. Twelve tries in all before I got it running
> with ppp compiled into the kernel. (couldn't get ppp working as a module)
>
> I basically turned everything off that I thought I could (support for video
> cards and chips I don't have) and made everything built in. (no modules)
>
> I actually learned a bit about linux by poking around in make menuconfig.
>
> Wise choice? I still don't know. My box may be a bit more sluggish with the
> kernel I built vs the 2.2.19 that came with YellowDogLinux, but I have no
> hard numbers on this. I await YDL 2.1 with its latest and greatest.
>
> - Pat Callahan
> Acton Ma
-- William "Bo" Brinkman brinkman@cs.princeton.edu Princeton Computer Science http://www.derandomized.org/ -- Lack of rounding does not imply precision. --Sarah Battersby's sig line
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