Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches and the 2.4->2.6 move
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:48:43
Message-Id: 200310192348.49463.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches and the 2.4->2.6 move by Donnie Berkholz
1 Just a couple of questions, out of curiousity.
2 1) When is the /usr/src/linux sym going to go away?
3 2) (snip from Kumba's mail)
4 echo "${BAD}*${NORMAL} benefits. Please note that this patch
5 is only
6 for 2.4 kernels. If you move to a 2.6"
7 echo "${BAD}*${NORMAL} kernel, you WILL need to re-merge
8 Xfree,
9 otherwise OpenGL-based applications"
10 echo "${BAD}*${NORMAL} will fail in X."
11 (snip)
12 Since this isn't completely accurate..maybe a slight tweaking on the wording.
13 If you are running a 2.6 kernel with 2.6 headers installed, Open-GL apps will
14 fail with X.If you are running a 2.6 kernel with the 2.4 headers installed,
15 you won't even notice any change, not to mention avoiding quite a few bs
16 problems with packages that wont build against the 2.6 headers anyway.
17 (I've run xfree 4.3.0-r3 since it hit unstable, and have yet to rebuild it
18 through 2.5 to todays 2.6.0test8)
19
20 --
21 Chuck Brewer
22 Registered Linux User #284015
23 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred.

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