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 -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21 Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
