On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:26:19PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > It would be worth upgrading the ultra to a recent 2.4 kernel from > > http://vger.samba.org. I found a > 10% improvement in some IO benchmarks > Are there any patches applied? I just think about using > kernel-image-2.4.7 (or higher) from the Debian mirror. Because of > the recent problems with gcc-2.9.6/gcc-3.0 when compiling the kernel > I don?t want to compile the kernel myself.
You don't use gcc-2.96 or gcc-3.0 for compiling sparc64 kernels. The package is egcs64. The 2.4.7 Debian kernels should be pretty recent, if you are still not comfortable compiling them. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
