On Tuesday 25 March 2003 04:52 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > 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*
Ah, not quite true.. From the configs' 'Shared Makefile: # conf: Used for defconfig, oldconfig and related targets # mconf: Used for the mconfig target. # Utilizes the lxdialog package # qconf: Used for the xconfig target # Based on QT which needs to be installed to compile it # gconf: Used for the gconfig target # Based on GTK which needs to be installed to compile it So maybe no tcl/tk anymore. Menuconfig's plenty good enough tho. > > 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'?0 I no longer run make dep. The output after menuconfig is: *** End of Linux kernel configuration. *** Check the top-level Makefile for additional configuration. *** Next, you may run 'make bzImage', 'make bzdisk', or 'make install'. I tend to run make modules out of habit. Entering 'make dep' gives me ***Warning: make dep is unnecessary now. > > 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? You have to have both, as modutils appears to be a dependency for module-init-tools, however module-init-tools has the extra functionality that 2.5.48 kernels and above need. > > 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! Will do. Bob Raymond -- Linux EPoX.Linux.Raymond 2.5.65-ac3 #3 Mon Mar 24 00:13:31 UTC 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 17:20:03 up 1 day, 17:03, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.22, 0.14 You will be awarded some great honor. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users