On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. > > This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting > warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings > at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the > output they tend to stand out. > > Here's what I get: > -- various type/attribute warnings
harmless. > -- reports of deprecated elements even more harmless > -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make > CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details. completly harmless. All three 'problems' can be safely ignored. So do it. > > All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I > don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server > running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that > reason. complain to vmware - it's their closed source crap that doesn't work.
