On Thu 15 Oct 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > I last compiled (with success) 2.0.36pre2 with "gcc version egcs-2.90.29 > > 980515 (egcs 1.0.3 release)" (according to /proc/version). That works > > perfectly with ISDN and all, and stayed up for a month until I upgraded > > sysvinit which then decided to run through all the init scripts etc ;-( > > Still, personally I wouldn't trust it. If I needed/wanted to compile a 2.0.x > kernel with egcs, I'd apply the patches at > http://www.suse.de/~florian/ > first.
I don't see how patching arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c and arch/i386/kernel/ksyms.c will help the stability of a kernel running on Alpha (which was the point here). If you do, please enlighten me :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
