Re: Trying to compile 1.2.13

Arthur D. Jerijian (jerijian@seas.ucla.edu)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:35:43 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Tony Nugent wrote:

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> What amazes me is that appears that Slackware maintains the ELF patch
> for the 1.2.13 kernel. (!!!)
>
> We need a 1.2.14 kernel. This is only one reason why. There are
> people like myself who end up applying a collection of patches to it
> if we want to compile it fresh.

I agree. We need to allow 1.2.13 to be compiled as ELF under GCC
2.7.0 onward. GCC 2.7.2 dies while trying to compile include/asm/io.h.
The only problem with having Linux 1.2.14 is that Linus is release
version 2.0 as soon as all the bugs have been ironed out of 1.3.x.

> There's a couple of us gathering together all the possible patches to
> 1.2.13, including some essential bug fixes and other optional things
> like the kswap patch (and how to use it in an ELF kernel).
>
> More on this in another post.
>
> Meanwhile, if anyone has patches that they use for 1.2.13 and would
> like to put them into a collection that will be made generally
> available on a web site, then email me at tony@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au
> (or else the message will get lost in list email at this account).

I think this is a great idea. However, I don't have that
include/asm/io.h patch with me right now.

> Cheers
> Tony
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