Since I just noticed that gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8 is marked stable for ppc I thought it would be reasonable to report an issue with arch/ppc/Makefile in the 2.6.8 (as well as 2.6.8.1) sources from kernel.org. I already informed the PPC kernel maintainers about this issue and they are looking into it. Here is is the relevant passage from an email I sent to Ben Herrenschmidt yesterday: > Compiling the kernel 2.6.8 as root deletes /dev/null and subsequently > recreates it as a regular file. I figured this is caused by the > assembler check in line 116 added to arch/ppc/Makefile in 2.6.8. (the > same may be true for line 109 which doesn't apply on my system). I afterwards noticed that, even if I compile the kernel as an unprivileged user (which was the advice I received from the kernel guys), make modules_install (now being root for obvious reasons) still has the same effect, i.e. /dev/null is gone. This issue also affects >=sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.8 which are still marked ~ppc though. BTW, am I right that compiling the kernel as root in /usr/src/<kernelversion> is considered the standard way to do it on Gentoo? Since yesterday I know that I could either chown /usr/src/<kv> or do something like mkdir ~/kernel cd /usr/src/<kv> make O=~/kernel However, I'm not sure how well this would work with portage or packages like mol that rely on the kernel sources. Any ideas?
I have temporarily masked 2.6.8 -ppc
Any progress here?
Dholm, I need a solution before sunday for the 2004.3 livecds. Can you have a look asap?
the latest seems working as should here.
Ok, I masking >= 2.6.8-r4 stable -r6 looks particularily interesting because it has ppc speakup support.
