Re: trying cutting edge kernel ..

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu wrote:
> After having my USB printer work I wanted to see if my USB Zip250
> would work. I looked at the linux-usb mailing list archives and
> found that some people were working on it and that some devel
> kernels 2.3.41-? could be made to work. So I went to ftp.kernel.org
> and found the following files -
>
> v2.3/linux-2.3.40.tar.bz2
> testing/pre-patch-2.3.41-X.bz2 where X=[1,2,3]
>
> My question is: Do I need to patch all 3 in order or should I just
> patch with the last file - in this case 3.

You just need the greatest 'pre' number, currently 2.3.41-pre3.


> Also, does this include all of the latest 2.3.39 linux-pmac-devel
> from linuxcare.com.au?

I only boot vanilla kernels on my PowerMac 7200.  2.2.15-pre4 works, and
with a little bit of tweaking, 2.3.41-preXX works too.  It's too much of
a PITA to work with loads of patches outside the main kernel source
tree.

I've send a couple small patches off to Cort.  Let me know if you can't
build on 2.3.41-preXX and I'll send the fixes to you and the lists.

	Jeff





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