At 11:34 -0700 5/15/97, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>
>I'm not sure why you'd bother downloading the sources to the 1.2.1 kernel,
>with -current around, although I would stick to a tarball of the sources
>(since those are usually only created when the kernel is compilable and
>working :-) rather than using sup to get the bleeding edge changes.  I
>believe the word for the tarball source collections is "-current enough".
>:-)

Primarily because I wanted to stick to the distribution set, if I can.
I've spent many hours trying to compile a kernel without luck... that's why
I ask.


>If you get a precompiled -current kernel, it would still be up to the
>compiler whether lkm support was compiled in.  Looking around on puma,
>Allen's copy of GENERIC configuration has lkm support turned on, so my
>guess is that any GENERIC after support was added probably has it turned
>on.  In fact, every config but MYSTERY and RAMDISK appears to.  Don't know
>about custom configs like WORMHOLE, etc.  So basically, if it's a GENERIC
>kernel (like the 1.2.1 dist kernel), try it, and if it doesn't work, it's
>too old, and you should upgrade to a -current.
>

Thanks.
Steve