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From: Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: Gireesh Kumar <gireesh.kumar@einfochips.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding kernel compilation
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:37:48 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e62d137050920013752bf31d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509201112.28091.vda@ilport.com.ua>

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 .....

> > 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 .........

-- 
Fawad Lateef

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20  8:37 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 [this message]
2005-09-20  8:56       ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-20 12:27       ` Jesper Juhl
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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