From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: fawadlateef@gmail.com
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
Gireesh Kumar <gireesh.kumar@einfochips.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding kernel compilation
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:27:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a87484905092005277f1bb470@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e62d137050920013752bf31d7@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/20/05, Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/20/05, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:11, Fawad Lateef wrote:
> > > I don't think you will be able to compile 2.4 kernel on to the 2.6
> > > kernel based distro .... as in 2.6 based distro, mod-utils and other
> >
> > 2.6 modutils (module-init-tools to be exact) fall back to <toolname>.old
> > (by just exec'ing it) if those exist.
> >
>
> you are right, but if they exists .... but what IIRC I havn't found
> them on FC4/RH EL4 distributions .....
>
Slackware 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 run just fine with 2.4.x and 2.6.x
kernels and you can build, install and run both just fine - no
problems at all there (even Slackware 9.1 will work with a few small
changes).
> > > packages are updated and will only support 2.6 based kernel .... So
> >
> > Not true. I compiled 2.4 kernels on 2.6 machine without any problems.
> >
> On which distribution 2.6 based you compiled and succesfully run 2.4
> kernel ??? b/c its not working on FC3/FC4/AS4 .........
>
Those are just a small subset of available distributions. Just because
it won't work there doesn't mean much.
--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-20 6:22 regarding kernel compilation Gireesh Kumar
2005-09-20 7:11 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-20 8:12 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-20 8:37 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-20 8:56 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-20 12:27 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-09-20 9:38 ` Mikael Pettersson
[not found] <4OJNI-Rt-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-09-21 0:08 ` Robert Hancock
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