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On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:36:51 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On 17 June 2020 18:52:49 CEST, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> >Hello, |
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> > |
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> >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for |
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> >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? |
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> >I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. |
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> >Thanks, |
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> > |
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> >raffaele |
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> Not entirely certain userspace will be supported, but it shouldn't be too |
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> difficult to test. |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Have a look here: |
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https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/?hideattic=0 |
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However, unless you replicate a system from back then you will be trying to |
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build old sources with a new toolchain. Perhaps it would be easier to fetch |
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an old minimal CD with a 3 series kernel, or for a ready made OS and kernel |
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into one, see if you can dig out some older Debian release? |
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