On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:10:34AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > I was very gently nudged...told that "I should stick w/ 2.4.21-behnxxxxx, as > that's cutting edge for powerpc." I have to admit that I'm rather indignant > about this "advice." (on this list, no less!) However, I have been told via > irc that woody doesn't have a sufficient tool chain to properly compile > 2.6.0-testx kernel yet, and elsewhere that the linux kernel is now an > exclusive community of only developers, and that us peons who want vanilla > kernels to compile for their (non-i386) platforms just have to wait.
I built 2.6.0-test1 (from the linuxppc-2.5 rsync tree on source.mvista.com) on my PowerMac 7500 with sid. I don't know if you have to have GCC 3.x now to compile it, but I heard something about binutils needing to be new enough. I had to make a couple hacks to the source to get it to build clean though, and the SWIM3 floppy controller driver doesn't presently build right (it prevents a successful build). I'm rather surprised that I had to tweak the source, especially at this late stage, to get it to build successfully. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
