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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-07-09 21:13:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-07-09 21:13:31 +0000 |
| commit | d3174181b3aea57661cda5a1ee073d1f6161e1db (patch) | |
| tree | fea2216e6dbd135b420b791b7584bd8d6b951968 | |
| parent | 0d2f0237d15adc03be6f40d7d5ef52742cd4b900 (diff) | |
Rewrote the NOTE section on kernel page. (merged from trunk r6470 and r6471)
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/BOOK@6472 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/kernel.xml | 19 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 3c06f8cc7..dd803c020 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para> </itemizedlist> </listitem> +<listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [archaic]: Rewrote kernel notes. +</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [matt]: Added information regarding security mailing lists and freshmeat to chapter09/whatnow.xml. Fixes bug 1583. Thanks to Steve Crosby for the report and the suggested text.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml index 20075c0e8..ca0cbdf0b 100644 --- a/chapter08/kernel.xml +++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml @@ -64,15 +64,6 @@ longindex.html#kernel-config-index</phrase></ulink>:</para> situations. See the <filename>README</filename> file for more information.</para> -<note><para>When configuring the kernel, be sure to enable the <quote>Support -for hot-pluggable devices</quote> option under the <quote>General Setup</quote> -menu. This enables hotplug events that are used by <command>udev</command> to -populate the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with device -nodes. Likewise, enable the <quote>Virtual memory file system support</quote> -option under the <quote>File systems</quote>/<quote>Pseudo filesystems</quote> -menu. This enables the virtual filesystem that the <filename -class="directory">/dev</filename> directory will be mounted on.</para></note> - <para>If desired, skip kernel configuration by copying the kernel config file, <filename>.config</filename>, from the host system (assuming it is available) to the unpacked <filename @@ -81,10 +72,12 @@ we do not recommend this option. It is often better to explore all the configuration menus and create the kernel configuration from scratch.</para> -<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC 3.x, in -this case &gcc-version;. Compiling with 2.95.x is known to cause failures in -the glibc test suite, so it is not recommended to compile the kernel -with gcc 2.95.x.</para></note> +<note><para>NPTL requires the kernel to be compiled with GCC-3.x, in this case +&gcc-version;. It is not recommended to compile the kernel with GCC-2.95.x, as +this causes failures in the Glibc test suite. Normally, this wouldn't be +mentioned as LFS doesn't build GCC-2.95.x. Unfortunately, the kernel +documentation is outdated and still claims GCC-2.95.3 is the recommended +compiler.</para></note> <para>Compile the kernel image and modules:</para> |