Umm...I don't think it's fair to say it's broken. You need to remember that there are a whole host of different options between 2.2 and 2.4 and I'm not sure any ever guaranteed that make oldconfig would work across major revisions like that.
I saw a posting somewhere saying that sound in 2.4 is just plain broken, regardless of arch, so YMMV. --rdp On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, James D. Freels wrote: > > Apparently "make oldconfig" is broken for the alpha. I went back and > examined the resulting .config and compared to the 2.2.16 .config and > there were at least 3 major areas that were not configured correctly: > > 1) the SRM dependence: I manually turned this back on so I can boot > from SRM > > 2) the PCI ethernet card dependence: I manually turned this back on > and my ehernet card was enabled from the previous .config > > 3) the MSS sound card dependence: there is no place to specify the > I/O, IRQ, dma, etc. So sound was broken. > > This time I built a PC164 kernel that booted successfully and > everthing but sound appeared to work (including ethernet). However, > it only took a few minutes of operation before the system hung on what > appeared to be scsi problem. I had to perform a hard reboot. Upon > reboot to my stable 2.2.16 kernel, all filesystems were checked with > one error fix. > > So, I think I will stop the experimentation for now. I would like to > hear about some successes and any advice. > > -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
