On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 03:21 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote on 02/06/06 02:55:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> 3) A vaguely related item... will it make any noticable difference if
> >>I rebuild my kernel with gcc.3.4.5 and reboot at the end of the process?
> >>I may as well upgrade the entire system.
>
> > If you've updated the rest of your system to 3.4.5, then do the kernel
> > as well. Especially if you have proprietary modules, like vmware,
> > ati-drivers, etc; or extra modules like ndiswrapper. Make sure you
> > compile these modules after you compile your kernel, but before you
> > reboot.
>
> VMWare is a problem, it looks at uname, so you can only update it to use
> your latest kernel *after* a reboot. PITA.
I assumed to OP was recompiling his kernel, not updating it ("if I
rebuild my kernel with gcc.3.4.5"). In which case, vmware can be done
before the reboot.
I would recommend rebuilding with the new gcc, rather than updating and
rebuilding at the same time, cause you may get other issues. So keeping
to the same kernel will single them to gcc.
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