fox2mike 05/09/08 10:08:02 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en migration-to-2.6.xml Log: #98027 - Make the profiles bit clearer, thanks to Thilo Bangert for reporting. Also fixed xml and Micha\uffff's name.
Revision Changes Path 1.19 +51 -25 xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.19&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.19&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml.diff?r1=1.18&r2=1.19&cvsroot=gentoo Index: migration-to-2.6.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v retrieving revision 1.18 retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.18 -r1.19 --- migration-to-2.6.xml 25 Aug 2005 10:59:31 -0000 1.18 +++ migration-to-2.6.xml 8 Sep 2005 10:08:02 -0000 1.19 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v 1.18 2005/08/25 10:59:31 neysx Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v 1.19 2005/09/08 10:08:02 fox2mike Exp $ --> <guide link="/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml"> @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ 2.6, devfs to udev, OSS to ALSA, and LVM to LVM2. </abstract> -<version>0.2.7</version> -<date>2005-08-24</date> +<version>0.2.8</version> +<date>2005-09-08</date> <chapter> <title>Introduction</title> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ <li> Scheduler/Interactivity improvements: Linux feels very smooth on desktop systems and copes much better than 2.4 while under load -</li> + </li> <li> Scalability: Linux now scales much better at both ends - on small embedded devices and also systems with many processors @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ <li> Hardware support: Linux now supports many more architectures and hardware devices out-of-the-box than any other operating system. -</li> + </li> </ul> <p> @@ -66,11 +66,35 @@ link="http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html";>The Wonderful World Of Linux 2.6</uri> which you may be interested to glance over. If you are interested in the more technical details, you can refer to <uri -link="http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt";>The -post-halloween document</uri> - but bear in mind that this is somewhat outdated -now. +link="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt";>The +post-halloween document</uri> - but do bear in mind that this is somewhat +outdated now. +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> +<title>Gentoo and 2.6</title> +<body> + +<p> +From the 2005.0 release of Gentoo Linux, the default kernel is the latest 2.6 +series kernel. The default profile of the system is picked up from +<path>/etc/make.profiles</path> which on 2005.0 or above would be a symlink to +<path>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0</path> under which various +important settings are taken care of. +</p> + +<p> +If you're using a 2.4 profile, please change it to one that supports a 2.6 +kernel by doing the following. </p> +<pre caption="Changing your profile"> +# <i>rm -f /etc/make.profile</i> +# <i>ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 /etc/make.profile</i> +</pre> + </body> </section> <section> @@ -79,13 +103,13 @@ <p> In the past, Gentoo has instructed users to use <e>devfs</e> for managing the -/dev directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to allow system -applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel). +<path>/dev</path> directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to +allow system applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel). </p> <p> <e>devfs</e>, whilst a good concept, has some internal problems, and has been -marked obsolete in Linux 2.6. +completely removed from the main stable tree as of 2.6.13. </p> <p> @@ -96,6 +120,8 @@ <p> The above may not mean much to you, but fear not, the hard working Gentoo developers have put effort into making the migration from devfs very easy. +Please read the <uri link="/doc/en/udev-guide.xml">Gentoo udev Guide</uri> for +more information regarding the same. </p> </body> @@ -186,7 +212,7 @@ <li> <c>sys-kernel/genkernel</c> (only if you wish to use genkernel as opposed to manual configuration) -</li> + </li> </ul> <pre caption="Updating all world packages"> @@ -274,9 +300,9 @@ </p> <p> -As your existing device manager will be mounted at /dev, we cannot access it -directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another location and -access the /dev directory from there. +As your existing device manager will be mounted at <path>/dev</path>, we cannot +access it directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another +location and access the <path>/dev</path> directory from there. </p> <pre caption="Bind-mounting your root partition and listing static devices"> @@ -373,14 +399,14 @@ <body> <p> -Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on /usr/src/linux being a -symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to compile -against). +Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on <path>/usr/src/linux</path> +being a symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to +compile against). </p> <p> -We will now update our /usr/src/linux link to point at the kernel sources we -just installed. Continuing our example: +We will now update our <path>/usr/src/linux</path> link to point at the kernel +sources we just installed. Continuing our example: </p> <pre caption="Updating the /usr/src/linux softlink"> @@ -603,14 +629,14 @@ <p> If you used the original Serial ATA drivers under Linux 2.4, you probably -observed your SATA devices having names such as <c>/dev/hde</c>. +observed your SATA devices having names such as <path>/dev/hde</path>. </p> <p> Linux 2.6 introduces some new SATA drivers (libata) which are based on the SCSI subsystem. As these drivers are based on SCSI, your SATA disks will now show up -as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named <c>/dev/sda</c>. You will -need to update your <c>/etc/fstab</c> file to reflect this, and you will need +as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named <path>/dev/sda</path>. You will +need to update your <path>/etc/fstab</path> file to reflect this, and you will need to bear this in mind when choosing the root/real_root kernel boot parameter later on. </p> @@ -634,9 +660,9 @@ <p> The developer of bootsplash appears to have lost interest in his project, given -some design problems. However, Gentoo developer <e>Michal Januszewski</e> is +some design problems. However, Gentoo developer <e>Michaà Januszewski</e> is developing a successor, <c>gensplash</c>, which in included in the -gentoo-sources-2.6 kernel. You can follow Michal's <uri +gentoo-sources-2.6 kernel. You can follow Michaà 's <uri link="http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/archive/gensplash-in-5-easy-steps.txt";> Gensplash in 5 easy steps</uri> document in order to familiarize yourself with how gensplash is operated. -- [email protected] mailing list
