RE: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha

Oliver Pitzeier
2002-07-23T23:43:07Z

George France wrote:
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> > I am currently running 2.4.18 from SuSE without any (major)
> > problems. I found it here:
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sf/axp/7.1/RPMS/kernel-source-
> > 2.4.18.SuSE-0.alpha.rpm.
> > Then I took arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c from version 2.4.12
> > (the current version does not run on XLT's booting with MILO;
> > the latest one is 2.4.12).
>
> I have not tried Stefan's 2.4.18 kernel. I am glad to hear
> that it works for you. I will give it a try.

For 2.4.18 I have a very good experience. It's running on
our mailserver (as well an alpha-machine [ds10]) with ext3.
Without patches it worked well. Now I have a few patches
(most of them are from l-k list)...

> > > 2) taking a look at the latest 2.5.x in the next few
> weeks, as we are
> > > aware that 2.5.x does not compile on Alpha.

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Just a comment:
2.5.26/27 doesn't create a modversions.h on my machine... So
make dep/clean and so on doesn't work for me...

-Oliver