[linux-audio-user] xruns - FC2/Planet(custom) vs. Gentoo(custom)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Oct 3 15:24:19 EDT 2004


On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:51:29 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:28:41 +0100, Steve Harris
> <s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:09:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >    So, the question at hand is why should the same kernel, built under
> > > two different distro's, but run on the same machine, produce different
> > > results. It's likely either what the compiler flags were, or what the
> > > libraries were, or what was running in the background. (So I think...)
> > 
> > Have you tried just booting the planet built kernel under gentoo?
> > 
> > - Steve
> > 
> 
> Steve,
>    I have not been that bold. would it work? At a minimum I'm fairly
> sure that glibc and gcc itself are different versions. Right or wrong
> my Gentoo box is updated almost daily to whatever the Gentoo gods
> consider 'stable', which is not as stable as you and I would
> necessarily call stable. Still, it's an interesting idea. Whatwoudl I
> drage over? The kernel binary and all of /lib/modules/this-kernel?

I /think/ it might work, yes, the kernel doesnt link against libc (or
anything else for that matter), so I dont think compatibility is an issue.
The /boot/* stuff would be needed and /lib/modules, but I think thats
enough.

Whats the worst that could happen ;)
 
> Cheers & a happy Sunday to you,

Happy sunday to you too, and good luck if you try it :)

- Steve



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