> -----Original Message----- > From: james <gar...@verizon.net> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo > > On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for > > some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? > > > > I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. > > > > Thanks, > > > > raffaele > > > > I use a 3.18.40 kernel, currently, on one of my AMD systems. It has > thousands of source build packages, not only from portage but many others. >
What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C libraries? Do you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date system or do you need to ''freeze'' some packages? Thanks, raffaele
