[Gllug] Any PPP gurus?

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 29 Dec Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I think this is wrong in that a vanilla stable kernel is a vanilla
> stable kernel. The kernel that Red hat would supply me is patched away
> like nobody's business - that is the result of a lot of work by them,
> I think the marginal difference between a vanilla 2.4.23 kernel and a
> 2.6.0 kernel isn't going to be that great.

Andrew Morton's list of caveats on the 2.6.0 release said (see LKML):
>   + The 2.6.0 kernel has undergone several weeks of stabilization
>     and we expect it to run well on server-class machines.
>
>     Desktops and laptops may have more trouble at this time because of
>     the much wider range of hardware and because of as-yet
>     unimplemented fixes for the hardware and BIOS bugs from which
>     these machines tend to suffer.

He also provided a list of areas which are known-to-be-bad, including
scheduling small workloads, ATA RAID, frame buffers, readahead and
cryptoloop.  A lot of these are fixed in the -mm tree, so you may be
better using that.

There is just too much flaky hardware out there, and so many important
changes from 2.4 to 2.6, that some stuff just isn't going to work.  So,
go ahead and try it, just make sure you know the email addresses to
report bugs to :)

doug.

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