Re: [expert] kernel 2.5.50 on Mandrake

[Bryan Whitehead]

Todd Lyons wrote:

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Robert Crawford wrote on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:08:21AM -0500 :

Is anyone using kernel 2.5.50 with Mandrake 9.0? I've tried to compile, both using the stock 9.0 .config file from /boot, and doing my own menuconfig and xconfig, but can never get past make dep without multiple errors. I've updated the required stuff in the 2.5.50 Documentation/changes file, but it didn't seem to help. Maybe I left something out, but I was careful to be sure

make dep seems to be deprecated in the 2.5 series. Just do
make oldconfig
make
make modules
make modules_install
make install

Now having said all that, I haven't been able to get a 2.5 kernel to
boot successfully since 2.5.47. They changed the modutils. Go look at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/rusty/modules/ and get version
0.9beta. I was not able to make it work, but maybe you'll have more
time and better luck.

I have 2.5.50 running fine... except for a couple snags, amd is kinda broken.... and the alsa-oss drivers are not automatically loaded for compadibility.

In addition, the new modutils don't correctly work when they call the older utilities. (for some reason the .o.gz modules will not get decompressed automatically by the old modutils when called from the new modutils) :(

don't for get to apply the patch in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/rusty/modules/ for 2.5.50. There is one reject you have to fix by hand.

All in all 2.5 seems nice, just needs much polishing.

The modutils changes are the biggest pain.

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Bryan Whitehead
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