A couple of questions appeared in my mind while upgrading to 2.2.10: (1) This business of having to install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh from potato's libc6 to make a recent 2.2.x kernel work if CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is selected. It's not too hard to do by hand, but it doesn't seem right that people should have to do that sort of thing merely in order to use a more up-to-date kernel. You can't tell people to update their libc6 to unstable just in order to use a newer kernel; we've already seen how an unstable libc6 can make a system unusable in some unfortunate cases. So is there another solution, other than telling people how to extract and install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh by hand?
(2) I built a kernel with CONFIG_SMP, which is the default, and was welcomed by this message (coming from linux/arch/sparc/mm/nosun4c.c): SILO boot: Uncompressing image... 32bit SMP kernel only supports sun4m and sun4d Program terminated Is there no way, at present, of building a kernel which does SMP on some suns but works on all suns? Edmund
