From: <rolf@diesing.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:04:06 +0100 Message-ID: <BCEMLCNMANGFBIDLIOAJAEMECAAA.rolf@diesing.net> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE Kernel Source
Hihi...
this may be an Answer, why i am not able to patch a Suse 2.4.14 to 2.4.15!
Look at the Thread:
"A _wonderfull_ Distribution. Thanx SUSE!"
I'm asking Thorsten Kukuk on Mon, Jan 07 about this and he say:
>On Mon, Jan 07, rolf@diesing.net wrote:
>> Yes... may be... I am _now_ confused...
>> because the last full Week (i tried to setup a well running SuSE-Linux on
a
>> Sparc) is gone without any success!
>>
>> Tell me an the other People on the Bord, why is it not possible to fix
>> errors in Your Kernel (2.4.14) with official Kernel Patches. And take a
look
>> into the Kernel-changelogs and ask this Question again, please!
>
>I think you are using a SS10? For this we don't ship a 2.4 kernel, only
>2.2.20.
>
>So we ship 3 kernel sources:
>2.2.20 for 32bit SPARC (which is 2.2.20aaX)
>2.4.14 for 64bit UltraSPARC
>And a plain 2.4.xx vanilla kernel for people who wish to patch
>the kernel.
>
>And yes, you will always find a newer kernel which has bug fixed
>and new bugs introduced. When we make the master, our 2.4.14 was
>far the stablest one from all possible solutions.
>And it is possible to fix our kernels with official kernel fixes.
>
> Thorsten
You can reread this at some days ago in this list.
And now the most important Question:
Who is wrong now and what is the Truth?
Rolf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Coates [mailto:ewcoate@nighthawk.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 6:15 PM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] SuSE Kernel Source
>
>
> Just a quick question if anyone can answer it. Why does SuSE which with a
> default 2.4.14 kernel for sparc, but when you grab the kernel-source.spm,
> it builds for linux-2.4.10.SuSE? Furthermore, why does the package list
> linux-2.4.10.tar.bz2, when in fact, if you install it, it doesn't, and you
> have to go to ftp.kernel.org and get it?
>
> Just a little bit of wondering on my part. Hope that someone can answer.
>
> Ed
>
>
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