Another installation instructions question

Hi again,

This is probably obvious to anyone who has worked with Gentoo on Alpha 
in the past, but I haven't, and I'm really wondering about this. When it 
comes the time to install kernel sources ( here - 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-alpha.xml?part=1&chap=7 
), the instructions mention vanilla-sources, alpha-sources and 
compaq-sources. I was wondering, is there any difference, for example in 
available kernel versions, or in supported subarchitectures (my machine 
is an AlphaXL-366 -- xlt, 21164, ev56), or whatever?

I'm tempted to go with alpha-sources, since I guess compaq-sources being 
used by RedHat might be outdated, and vanilla-sources might not be 
optimized for alpha specifically. Am I right about that?

Also, should I stick to a 2.4 series kernel on my machine, or will a 2.6 
series build all right? On my old debian system I had all kinds of 
trouble with the 2.6 kernels, but that may just be because I couldn't 
customize it correctly (I was using a pre-built debian kernel).

Thanks in advance,

J-S

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