Re: Kernel 2.6 on Alpha XL 366 (xlt)

Its a bit strange does the Makefile have 2.6.12-rc2 in it?

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 11:54 -0400, Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I haven't been following the list as much lately (finishing my 
> bachelor's degree soon), but I was able to compile the 2.6.12-rc2 kernel 
> (vanilla-sources). It runs fine (as far as I can tell). And the best 
> thing is that I compiled it with the "Alcor/XLT" system type (not 
> generic like I had to do with 2.4.28! There's a new option just under 
> System Type to tell the kernel that I have an ev56 CPU, maybe that's 
> what made the difference...
> 
> One thing that's weird is that emerge put the kernel in 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-rc2 (not 2.6.12-rc2 as it should have). I'm sure 
> it's 2.6.12-rc2 because of a) uname -a says so, b) the dir it created in 
> /lin/modules is 2.6.12-rc2, c) at the logon screen it also says 
> 2.6.12-rc2. So is there any danger in moving it to 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2? Will emerge find it again if I ever want to 
> unmerge it? (I'm, guessing no, but is that so bad?)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> J-S
> 
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