On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Robert E. Raymond wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 03:20 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Robert E. Raymond wrote: > > > I've been using only 2.5.xx since mid-October. No data loss or anything > > > major- finally have USB again after some issues with ACPI, APIC, and > > > VIA's odd implementation. > > > > I'll admit i've never played with 2.5.x. I've heard/read that it uses a > > different kernel configuration mechanism (not xconfig/menuconfig??). is > > this the case? if so, could you elaborate on how building a kernel > > differes with 2.5.x? maybe a short SxS for folks who are experienced > > building 2.4.x kernels? > > I'll consider that but I can just highlight the differences here: > > Menuconfig and xconfig are still present in 2.5.x. Menuconfig really hasn't > changed much. A few menus, such as the input device section have been > changed somewhat, mainly to add more options. Xconfig is *very* different, > and I guess I could take a look at it (I've been using menuconfig only for > who knows how long). Should be pretty easy for anyone to figure out, tho it > does seem to have a qt dependence now.
Qt dependency?? eeek. what kind of crack was Linus smoking when he blessed that change? good ole tk/tcl always worked well, especially on leaner systems. *sigh* > As of maybe around 2.5.6x, make dep is no longer needed, and the instructions > say to 'make bzImage' after you get done saving your config. I tend to run > 'make modules' anyway, and this builds most of the compiled in stuff anyway, > tho make bzImage still needs to be run. err...'make modules' or 'make dep'? > Also you get to replace modutils with module-init-tools. It will keep your > old modutils for easy swapping between 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels.. I think it > renames the files to *.old or something. I've not bothered saving them > because 2.4.x doesn't like my highpoint 374 for some reason. so module-init-tools is backwards compatible with 2.4.x kernel builds, or does this basically require you to keep both modutils & module-init-tools on the system if you wish to build both 2.4.x & 2.5.x kernels? > Is that enough, or should I go ahead and write an SxS? personally, i'd still like a real SxS, if you don't mind, and have the time. thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
