Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:36:17 -0800 | From | George Anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Installing kernel 2.4 |
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But, here the customer did run the configure code (he said he did not change anything). Isn't this where the machine should be diagnosed and the right options chosen? Need a way to say it is a cross build, but that shouldn't be too hard.
My $.02 worth.
George
"James A. Sutherland" wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> said: > > > > [...] > > > > > Your way out in the weeds. What started this thread was a customer who > > > ended up loading the wrong arch on a system and hanging. I have to > > > post a kernel RPM for our release, and it's onerous to make customers > > > recompile kernels all the time and be guinea pigs for arch ports. > > > > I'd prefer to be a guinea pig for one of 3 or 4 generic kernels distributed > > in binary than of one of the hundreds of possibilities of patching a kernel > > together at boot, plus the (presumamby rather complex and fragile) > > machinery to do so *before* the kernel is booted, thank you very much. > > Hmm... some mechanism for selecting the appropriate *module* might be nice, > after boot... > > > Plus I'm getting pissed off by how long a boot takes as it stands today... > > Yep: slowing down boottimes is not an attractive idea. > > > > They just want it to boot, and run with the same level of ease of use > > > and stability they get with NT and NetWare and other stuff they are used > > > to. This is an easy choice from where I'm sitting. > > > > Easy: i386. Or i486 (I very much doubt your customers run on less, and this > > should be geneic enough). > > I think there are better options. Jeff could, for example, *optimise* for > Pentium II/III, without using PII specific instructions, in the main kernel, > then have multiple target binaries for modules. > > James. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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