On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:53:48PM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 14:02:03 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Not having tried to compile any recent Linus kernel on powerpc or > > elsewhere, I might be wrong, but from my experience it's always been the > > case that different architectures each had their own development trees and > > their own (rather small) development communities. It's always been up to > > you to figure out where to get cutting edge kernel sources, and to deal > > with problems yourself as they show up. Advice like 'better stick with > > 2.4.21-benh' might just mean that - unless you want to spend your time > > fixing patch rejects or compile errors and risk kernel crashes, just use > > the stable powerpc branch (which happens to be maintained by Ben). > > If the 2.4.21-benh kernel is so good, why is there a buggy > kernel-image-2.4.21-powerpc package but no kernel-image-2.4.21-benh > package in Debian?
Because it is the 'stable' kernel ? Seriously, you find kernel-image-2.4.21-powerpc package to be buggy, what bugs are you exactly speaking and did you fill bug reports for them ? Friendly, Sven Luther
