* Pierre-Yves Ritschard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-03 11:59]: > * Stuart Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 2006/11/03 11:34, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > > > Another solution would be, once 4.1 gets out to unpack the base41.tgz, > > > etc41.tgz and comp41.tgz into /usr/somewhere then unpack or checkout > > > using cvs the 4.1 kernel sources in there as well. > > > > Nice idea, and it works sometimes, but only when the new binaries run > > on your old kernel, which isn't guaranteed (see the 'reboot on a new > > kernel' warnings in release(8) and the 'without install media' upgrade > > documentation). > > > Yeah, I should have mentionned that. > In the case of building a kernel it should work since cc has a great > chance of still running on the new kernel (except for things like > switching from a.out to elf or the like).
or adding a fundamental syscall a lot of apps use (through libc or similar) - like the in-kernel getcwd lately... -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
