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From: Nathaniel Grady <nate@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:29:09
Message-Id: 20010928233026.A6340@nutopia.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome by Mikael Hallendal
1 PCMCIA is working fine on my Thinkpad 600e - my tulip based ethernet card is working with 2.4.10. As a side note i also changed the CFLAGS and CFLAGS_KERNEL to use -03 insted of 02...
2
3 --Nathaniel Grady
4 (nutopianate)
5
6 On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:58:16PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
7 > fre 2001-09-28 klockan 16.26 skrev Ben Lutgens:
8 > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
9 > > >Hi everyone,
10 > > >
11 > > >I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
12 > > >CVS. These new kernels are *amazing*. Right now, the "linux" package uses a
13 > > >goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead. Instructions below.
14 > > >
15 > > >I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
16 > > >Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches. It's like
17 > > >getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)
18 > >
19 > > Warning! When I applied those preemption patches my pcmcia stuff stopped
20 > > working. I'm not sure if it's related, but that was the only change I made
21 > > to the kernel was adding those patches. I then recompiled my pcmcia as
22 > > well.
23 >
24 > Seems to be more people having trouble with these patches and
25 > pcmcia-stuff.
26 >
27 > Regards,
28 > Mikael Hallendal
29 >
30 > --
31 >
32 > Mikael Hallendal
33 > Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
34 > CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
35 >
36 >
37 >
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