On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote:

>> I have seen a couple of serious problems with
>> 2.4.0-test7.
>> 1) Support for 2K sectors (as on my Fujitsu F2513A
>> drive which uses 2K sectors 
>> on its 640 Mb removable disks( is broken.
>> 2) EIDE support on my hardware (AMD K6-2/500, ASUS
>> P5S-B,     IDE interface: 
>> Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev
>> 208), is slower than 2.2.16.
>
>2.4 test 8 is out. On another note is the build
>process the same as 2.2 kernels? If I am already
>familiar with building 2.2 kernels should I expect it
>will be similar to build a 2.4 kernel?

Similar yes.  If you are making a dist, and going to be
considering 2.4.x.. I strongly recommend you get up to snuff with
2.4.x devel and subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  This
will give you lots of answers to kernel related development,
etc. without asking.

Good luck,
TTYL


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