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On Sunday 22 September 2002 01:41, you wrote:
> Hi fellows..
>
> I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla
> kernel 2.4.19
>
> I have used so far (in the last few months at least) RedHat's 2.4.18
> kernel, but it seem my board decided that enough is enough and acpi=off
> parameter doesn't impress it at all (and there is no ACPI off mode in my
> Intel i845 board's BIOS) - which means - I have to recompile a kernel...
>
> So, how's 2.4.19? good enough? put some Marcello's stuff in? any
> recommendations??
It's better than 2.4.18 redhat but actually you're always better off using
vanilla (the ugly driver code that RH puts in which rightly doesn't belong in
the kernel isn't something you want even if you have the specific hardware).
I wouldn't get an -pre from Marcello. If I would go for non vanilla I would
take stuff off the -ac tree (Alan is finding lots of bugs and fixing stuff in
the IDE layer lately and I like that...). If you're not a kernel hacker I
don't see any reason what so ever to use a non vanilla (you're just wasting
your time unless your objective is to experiment with kernels in which case
go right ahead and get your kernel from the WOLK project...:).
I like 2.4.19 but it isn't a revolution compared to 2.4.18 (meaning - if you
don't need the driver fixes you're ok with either).
In general I would recommend making a habit out of installing a vanilla
kernel every time you install a system. This way you can at least report bugs
to LKML. Most people rarely understand how many patches RH applies to their
kernel. I heard a last count of 254 patches most of which wouldn't get by the
first line of kernel maintainers not to mention Linus. I guess that only goes
to show what commercial companies are good for: selling you things that are
not yet half baked (and don't get me started about gcc 2.96...).
Regards,
Mark.
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
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