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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: "Gentoo Dev." <gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:58:30
Message-Id: 1001689096.583.12.camel@fry
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome by Ben Lutgens
1 fre 2001-09-28 klockan 16.26 skrev Ben Lutgens:
2 > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
3 > >Hi everyone,
4 > >
5 > >I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
6 > >CVS. These new kernels are *amazing*. Right now, the "linux" package uses a
7 > >goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead. Instructions below.
8 > >
9 > >I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
10 > >Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches. It's like
11 > >getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)
12 >
13 > Warning! When I applied those preemption patches my pcmcia stuff stopped
14 > working. I'm not sure if it's related, but that was the only change I made
15 > to the kernel was adding those patches. I then recompiled my pcmcia as
16 > well.
17
18 Seems to be more people having trouble with these patches and
19 pcmcia-stuff.
20
21 Regards,
22 Mikael Hallendal
23
24 --
25
26 Mikael Hallendal
27 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
28 CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden

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Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome Nathaniel Grady <nate@×××××××.org>