Messages in this thread |  | | From | Joe Fouche <> | Subject | A little pre-2.0 input | Date | Sun, 12 May 1996 18:40:28 -0700 (PDT) |
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Just a few observations before the grand release of the 2.0 kernel:
1) Configuration still seems a tiny bit illogical. For example, it asks certain things (like CONFIG_ETHERNET) in weird places. Also, maybe the (NEW) thing shouldn't appear when .config doesn't already exist?
2) Whatever happened to the supposed gcc bug I saw on one of these lists, about the -fcse-skip-blocks optimization in 2.7.2? If this exists, should we trap for it in Makefile (or at least note about it in README)? {also, pentium gcc 2.7.2p seems to break networking code, we might note that}
3) Should make {x,menu}config fail more gracefully if the admin doesn't have {tk,ncurses} installed?
4) Will there be any change to the way certain messages are forcibly written to the console, no matter what klogd wants/does?
5) Whatever happened to the qdep script that made dependencies so quickly? Did it fade away, or get integrated when I wasn't looking?
6) Will README clearly mention things like procps that must be upgraded to use 2.0, or will the list traffic triple instead? :)
7) Is there _any_ mention of bzImage and the like in the source? On a related note, README should mention initrd...
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