Are we going to be able to get a 2.5.xx kernel compiled with Mandrake 9.1? I gave up trying to compile a 2.5 kernel on 9.0, as apparently too many needed items were missing and/or unavailable (not to mention I'm not exactly an expert at this stuff). I figured with the newer glibc and gcc it may be possible, but what else is needed? I guess an upgraded module-init-tools according to what I've read, but will a new version exist OK on 9.1, and what about automake and autoconfig- do we need newer versions of those too? Has anybody done it yet? Basically, I'm ready to compile anything needed from source, but before when I've tried this, I always ran into drastic versions of dependency hell- to such an extent I was forced to give up.
I managed to get 2.4.20 with the ck preemptive kernel patch to work fine on 9.0, but can't find a ck or rml preemptive patch for 2.4.21 as yet, so I thought 2.5.65 might be worth a try, as it is already preemptive. In my case, the preemptive kernel gave a noticable performance boost. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks, Robert Crawford
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