On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:24:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> > I'm using the latest patches from Debian since that seemed to be the latest 
> > I could find.  Because my current builds are targeted at a 2.4 series 
> > kernel in
> > an embedded system they work with a few small patches but I'm planning
> > on switching to 2.6 as soon as possible.
> 
> There appears to be a misconception that 2.6 requires new tools. Notice
> that Ralf said newer Linux distributions (meaning newer libc, gcc etc)
> rather than newer kernels.

Correct.  Binary compatibility across kernels is one of the holy grails
in Linux and AX.25 is not exception to that.  Unfortunately that's a
little different for source code of the tools which at times may need a
little update to compile on a more recent system.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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