On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:09:42PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > Actually, I have had a lot of trouble building working 2.4 kernels for > powerpc. I have a starmax 4000/200 (200 mhz 604e). > > Of course, I use source that's meant for powerpc. It appears linux for ppc > has a ways to go before it's like linux for x86.
I'm using Ben H's tree, but I was using the bk tree until it stopped being available from penguinppc.org. (Why did that happen, anyway?) > Does anyone else have so much trouble building working 2.4 kernels for > powerpc? I get lots of messages from the kernel about spinlocks on my quad SMP PPC604 mac clone. It also locks hard sometimes. This is why I haven't made it my main workstation yet :( I haven't had time for kernel hacking, but hopefully that'll change now that I've convinced my university to give me a degree :) > > I have had almost no trouble with 2.2 kernels though.. 2.2 won't do SMP on my machine. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
