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used by RedHat might be outdated, and vanilla-sources might not be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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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used by RedHat might be outdated, and vanilla-sources might not be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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http://whitestar02.webhop.org/
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