[gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome

[gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome

[Daniel Robbins]

Hi everyone,

I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
CVS.  These new kernels are *amazing*.  Right now, the "linux" package uses a
goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead.  Instructions below.

I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches.  It's like
getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)  

To use this new kernel, do a:

# emerge sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.10
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
# make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install
# mount /boot
(on rc5-)
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/boot/bzImage-2.4.10
# vim /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst
(on rc6+)
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.10
# vim /bootgrub/menu.lst
(then)
# umount /boot
# reboot

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome

[Ben Lutgens]

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
>CVS.  These new kernels are *amazing*.  Right now, the "linux" package uses a
>goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead.  Instructions below.
>
>I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
>Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches.  It's like
>getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)  

Warning! When I applied those preemption patches my pcmcia stuff stopped
working. I'm not sure if it's related, but that was the only change I made
to the kernel was adding those patches. I then recompiled my pcmcia as
well. 


>
>To use this new kernel, do a:
>
># emerge sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.10
># cd /usr/src/linux
># make menuconfig
># make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install
># mount /boot
>(on rc5-)
># cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/boot/bzImage-2.4.10
># vim /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst
>(on rc6+)
># cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.10
># vim /bootgrub/menu.lst
>(then)
># umount /boot
># reboot
>
>Best Regards,
>
>-- 
>Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
>Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
>Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			
>
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Ben Lutgens		
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front lines" - William Cohen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome

[Mikael Hallendal]

fre 2001-09-28 klockan 16.26 skrev Ben Lutgens:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
> >CVS.  These new kernels are *amazing*.  Right now, the "linux" package uses a
> >goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead.  Instructions below.
> >
> >I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
> >Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches.  It's like
> >getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)  
> 
> Warning! When I applied those preemption patches my pcmcia stuff stopped
> working. I'm not sure if it's related, but that was the only change I made
> to the kernel was adding those patches. I then recompiled my pcmcia as
> well. 

Seems to be more people having trouble with these patches and
pcmcia-stuff.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

-- 

Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.4.10 is awesome

[Nathaniel Grady]

PCMCIA is working fine on my Thinkpad 600e - my tulip based ethernet card is working with 2.4.10. As a side note i also changed the CFLAGS and CFLAGS_KERNEL to use -03 insted of 02...

--Nathaniel Grady
(nutopianate) 

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:58:16PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> fre 2001-09-28 klockan 16.26 skrev Ben Lutgens:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:02:28AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > >Hi everyone,
> > >
> > >I just added linux, linux-sources, linux-headers and linux-extras-2.4.10 to
> > >CVS.  These new kernels are *amazing*.  Right now, the "linux" package uses a
> > >goofy default configuration; use linux-sources instead.  Instructions below.
> > >
> > >I think you'll notice a *tremendous* speed improvement thanks to Andrea
> > >Archangeli's VM rewrite and the included preemptible kernel patches.  It's like
> > >getting a 2.6 kernel 18 months early :)  
> > 
> > Warning! When I applied those preemption patches my pcmcia stuff stopped
> > working. I'm not sure if it's related, but that was the only change I made
> > to the kernel was adding those patches. I then recompiled my pcmcia as
> > well. 
> 
> Seems to be more people having trouble with these patches and
> pcmcia-stuff.
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mikael Hallendal
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
> CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> 
> 
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