At 05:35 PM 03/28/2001, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>Dennis writes:
> > I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing
> the
> > choices.
>
>Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to
>handhold newbies through the process.
Arguing that something
Dennis writes:
> I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing the
> choices.
Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to
handhold newbies through the process.
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At 03:36 PM 03/28/2001, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:17, Dennis wrote:
> > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor
> > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that
> > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?
note also smp is enabled by default... While that's won't break most boxes
it will prevent some other things like apm from working... You sorta got
to pick your battles... no default kernel config is gonna work for
everyone.
joelja
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Brad Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001
At 04:07 PM 03/28/2001, Doug McNaught wrote:
>Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a
> > Pentium...generic should be the default.
>
>The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realise
>that your life get
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:07:23PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a
> > Pentium...generic should be the default.
>
> The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realis
Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a
> Pentium...generic should be the default.
The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realise
that your life get a lot easier. ;)
-Doug
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On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:17, Dennis wrote:
> its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor
> type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that
> supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?
>
> Dennis
You pick the lowest common den
At 02:30 PM 03/28/2001, Michel Wilson wrote:
> > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor
> > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that
> > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?
> >
> > Dennis
>
>Use i386 to make a ge
> its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor
> type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that
> supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?
The generic kernel type is '386'. We used to simply say each kernel runs on
that cpu an
> its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor
> type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that
> supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?
>
> Dennis
Use i386 to make a generic kernel, this option will make it work on all
Intel
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