[KLUG Members] 2.6 Kernel

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:58:20 -0500


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:10:15PM -0500, Bruce Smith was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > ... Multimedia not being a big concern, I've been putting off
> > tackling this issue.
> 
> I tried it on my laptop where I was using ALSA modules on kernel 2.4.
> I was pleasantly surprised to see ALSA fire up "out of the box" on
> 2.6.  No changes were needed.

All my packages are really compiled for 2.4.x, so it is probably a lack
of 2.6 threading support in SDL. bind9, for example, sets the
SO_BSDCOMPAT socket flag, which now raises a warning under 2.6, though
it runs fine.

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