[wellylug] Anyone running a 2.6 kernel yet?

[Francois Prowse]

Correction - on an ultra 1 :) Not to sure why I typed a 5 instead :)

Linux sparky 2.6.0-test1 #1 SMP Fri Jul 18 17:53:26 NZST 2003 sparc64 
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Francois

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Francois Prowse wrote:

> I'm currently running 2.6.0-test0 on a Sparc Ultra 5 and it is actually 
> really usable even for an old beast running at 167 mhz. So far no noticed 
> problems.....but I'm not really pushing it either. Of course it is also 
> running Debian...
> 
> re
> 
> Francois 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Judd wrote:
> > > Now that 2.6.0-test is out, I thought I might gingerly give it a go.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else running it? Words of advice?
> > > 
> > > Stephen
> > 
> > I am experimenting with it at the moment. Copying a 2.4 config and modifying 
> > it with make menuconfig seems to be broken. A bunch of the modules don't even 
> > compile and need to be disabled in the config. For some completely bizarre 
> > reason console support is disabled by default, apparently people won't need 
> > one. OTOH USB 2 and firewire support is much better.
> > 
> > Useful notes at
> >     http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Jonathan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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