On 12 Sep 2003, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Martin-�ric Racine writes: > > > G3 and G4 kernels could be optimized with specific hardware in mind, > > e.g. G3 for iBook and iMac CRT, G4 for Cube and everything after, > > etc. > > Your idea has some validity since the current situation is less than ideal - > there is a generic kernel that most people recompile and hand-tweak for > their systems as one of the first post-installation steps.
And since recompiling fails repeatedly for the dmasound drivers (abundantly documented elsewhere on this list), I am back to square one and end up using the generic powerpc kernel, which is less than satisfactory. > Recently, a slightly different idea popped up on debian-private. Have a > package that depends on the kernel source, contains or pulls in appropriate > patches, guides the user through a selection of .config files, and finally > builds and installs a kernel semi-automatically. That would be briliant! -- Martin-�ric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
