On 2014-02-14, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Grant Edwards
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> I need to do some testing with kernels as far back as 2.6.25. I've
>> currently got a Gentoo box that can build and run kernels ranging from
>> 3.14.rc2 to 2.6.32. There are various gcc and make issues which have
>> been successfully dealt with, but now I'm stuck on DEVTMPFS.
>>
>> Prior to 2.6.32 DEVTMPFS isn't available, so even though I can build
>> and boot a 2.6.25 kernel, udev craps out.
>>
>> There are plenty of spare paritions to play with, so doing a Linux
>> install to test with kernels older than 2.6.32 is no problem.
>>
>> I'm wondering if instead of downloading an old Ubuntu or Fedora DVD,
>> is there any way to install an "old" version of Gentoo that will work
>> with pre-DEVTMPFS kernels?
>
> Do you actually need udev?
Good question -- I probably don't. For the testing in question I
should be able to live with a static /dev directory. Is there any
documentation on doing a Gentoo install without udev?
> If you can get away with just having a static /dev with pre-created
> device nodes, that would be the simplest solution.
It would probably be asking for too much to try to toggle between udev
and static /dev at boot time in a single installation...
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