Re: Some experiences upgrading my kernel from 2.4.28 to 2.6.11.8

Aron Griffis wrote:
> Andrew Gaylard wrote:	[Fri May 27 2005, 03:49:09PM EDT]
>>I did the "emerge -ua world" to bring my whole system up to date.
>>sendmail-8.13.3 and strace-4.5.11 wouldn't build.  Anyone seen this?
> 
> 
> Please file bugs for these... http://bugs.gentoo.org/

OK, done.  The sendmail bug is bug 94287.
The strace problem's gone away -- I must have tried an older version.

>>4.  Booting.
>>I had some problems booting.  First, I configured my kernel for
>>my system type (miata).  This kernel hung while booting (I think in the
>>keyboard initialization code).  I had the same problem with 2.4.x
>>kernels on this box; the solution then was to rebuild with the
>>system-type set to "generic".  This worked.
> 
> 
> Interesting!  For me "generic" doesn't work, but "dp264" does (on
> a ds20e).  I guess this is sort of like the tulip driver: if it
> doesn't work, try the other one.

Here's a question: will my kernel be slower if it isn't built for
the exact machine type?  In other words, what exactly does the
"system type" affect?


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