On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:45:49PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > severity 266839 wishlist > thanks > > Wouter van Reeven wrote: > > Package: kernel-source-2.6.7 > > Version: 2.6.7-4 > > > > After downloading the kernel-source package I unzipped and untarred it. > > Then I ran make menuconfig and checked and verified the correct > > architecture and machine specs were loaded. Then I quit with saving > > changes. > > Next I ran "make" which exited with this error: > > The kernel-source package is known to miss half a ton of mips-specific > patches, it is not supposed to work for mips/mipsel in its raw form. > This may change for future versions if integration of linux-mips.org > modifications into the kernel.org tree works well. > > 2.6 cobalt needs AFAIK some further porting work as well. I plan to do > kernel-patch-2.6.8-mips post sarge, and hope the cobalt support is good > enough by then.
Just a question, why post-sarge ? Apart from not enough time or such, is there technical reasons for that ? Friendly, Sven Luther