On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:19:57AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
I've installed the kernels mentioned above on several RH 7.2 servers. It
has worked - like before - very well. The only problem I had was when
upgrading my laptop. The PCMCIA stuff seems broken somehow and unloading
kernel modules of PCMCIA devices just crashes the box. I'm sure the
problem is that those new kernels were built on RedHat 8.0 which is
quite different from 7.x. I then tried to rebuild from source RPM on
RedHat 7.2. Building i386 and i586 packages went fine but i686 didn't.
I'm happy anyway and thanks for the great product!
The problem is that these kernel are built with gcc 3.2 - if you build the
pcmcia modules (or any other kernel module) with gcc 2.96 you'll get struct
mismatches. OTOH I'm not even sure whether there are external pcmcia
module on RH..
When I tried to build those kernel on my RH7.3 box I got internal compiler
error, but I have to admit I've not updated to the latest gcc eratta :)
Maybe we should provide a gcc 2.96 built version for the RH7.x usesers, too..