On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:48:18AM -0800, Thomas Tutone wrote: > > > > > > 1. Any suggestions on how to proceed short of > > > building a 2.6.16.27 kernel for the host? > > > > Don't do that. Please. Adrian Bunk is maintaining > > 2.6.16 at the > > moment, if you are going to stay with 2.6.16 then > > please use a > > current version - most of what goes in is security > > fixes. > > OK, good advice (and the book makes the same point). > But the book (in section 8.3.1) also suggests applying > a patch (linux-2.6.16.27-utf8_input-1.patch) before > building a new kernel for the LFS system. That > particular patch presumably should only be applied if > one is using 2.6.16.27. If one instead uses a current > version of 2.6.16, can one safely ignore the advice > about applying the patch (because, for example, the > later version already incorporates that patch)?
The patch should apply to any later version of 2.6.16, but I don't know if anybody has tried it with the recent versions. It didn't get merged, I think there was some disagreement about the correct way to do things. It doesn't apply to current kernels (2.6.20.x etc), the code was rewritten at some point - I think there are comments about the current UTF-8 kernel issue(s) either in LFS-svn or in trac, but I don't have time to search for them at the moment. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
