Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 18:00:07 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:52 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote: > > > >>BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think > >>distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have. > > > why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and > > even if it were...) > > > > external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the > > cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot. > > Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers > out there that do not build their modules properly.
yup there are. sad but true ;(
> It gets especially > interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6, > and also link the result against an included binary blob.
well if a binary blob is involved you've lost already in many ways.
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