On Thursday 02 August 2007, Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:24:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > I'm using the latest patches from Debian since that seemed to be the > > > latest > > > I could find. Because my current builds are targeted at a 2.4 series > > > kernel in > > > an embedded system they work with a few small patches but I'm planning > > > on switching to 2.6 as soon as possible. > > > > There appears to be a misconception that 2.6 requires new tools. Notice > > that Ralf said newer Linux distributions (meaning newer libc, gcc etc) > > rather than newer kernels. > > Correct. Binary compatibility across kernels is one of the holy grails > in Linux and AX.25 is not exception to that. Unfortunately that's a > little different for source code of the tools which at times may need a > little update to compile on a more recent system.
Thanks, I figured that out last night when I discovered my cross-compile issues were environment related :-) Still it would be nice to have a release with any bug-fixes. Ken, N7IPB (running openwrt kamikaze, ax25, and kiss to multiple tnc7multi's on a linksys wrtsl54g, :-) )
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