[dundee] kernel compilation

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:27, keirlawson@btopenworld.com wrote:
> >  from:    Andrew Clayton <andrew@sol-1.demon.co.uk>
> >  date:    Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:21:19
> >  to:      dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk
> >  subject: Re: [dundee] kernel compilation
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 22:07, keirlawson@btopenworld.com wrote:
> > > can somebody direct me to a site about kernel compilation (newbie) or email me some instructions as to how to recompile a kernel.  i need to have the latest one to fix the fuzzy sound.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Basically 
> > 
> > 
> > Get the latest kernel source.
> > 
> > In fact I would recommend using 2.4.22pre7 as it contains various IO
> > stall fix's and has reworked sound.
> > 
> > Get a 2.4.21.tar.bz2 from 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
> > 
> > Get the 2.4.22-pre7 patch from
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.22-pre7.bz2
> > 
> I had hoped to use Kon Colivas's patch set
>  (http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/)
> for better speed. will this work with 2.4.22-pre7? 

No. I expect you will get a lot of conflicts. If you want to use his
patch, use it instead of patch-2.4.22-pre7.bz2 and see how it goes.



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Andrew