From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AX25 tools and packages
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:27:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070802112715.GB25597@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070802012451.GA1238@cloud.net.au>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:24:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I'm using the latest patches from Debian since that seemed to be the latest
> > I could find. Because my current builds are targeted at a 2.4 series kernel in
> > an embedded system they work with a few small patches but I'm planning
> > on switching to 2.6 as soon as possible.
>
> There appears to be a misconception that 2.6 requires new tools. Notice
> that Ralf said newer Linux distributions (meaning newer libc, gcc etc)
> rather than newer kernels.
Correct. Binary compatibility across kernels is one of the holy grails
in Linux and AX.25 is not exception to that. Unfortunately that's a
little different for source code of the tools which at times may need a
little update to compile on a more recent system.
73 de DL5RB op Ralf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 17:23 AX25 tools and packages Bill Vodall WA7NWP
2007-07-26 21:04 ` Mike McCarthy, W1NR
2007-07-26 22:19 ` aa6qn
2007-07-26 22:29 ` Hamish Moffatt
2007-07-27 0:23 ` Chuck Hast
2007-07-27 14:05 ` Michael Taylor
2007-07-28 13:35 ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2007-07-31 9:54 ` Iñaki Arenaza
2007-08-02 0:05 ` Ken Koster
2007-08-02 1:24 ` Hamish Moffatt
2007-08-02 11:27 ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB [this message]
2007-08-03 0:20 ` Ken Koster
2007-08-03 15:07 ` Bernard Pidoux
2007-08-03 19:06 ` AX25 Segmentation fault William McKeehan
2007-08-03 23:22 ` Mike McCarthy, W1NR
2007-08-04 2:03 ` William McKeehan
2007-11-06 20:08 ` AX25 tools and packages Matti Aarnio
2007-11-08 11:18 ` Bernard Pidoux
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