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Charlie Brady wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, John W. Linville wrote:
>  
>
>>I don't know about the 4710 or 4702 (I haven't got around to that yet), 
>>but the 4704 doesn't seem to need any special flags for building the 
>>kernel (or anything else).
>>    
>>
>
>The acid test is not whether the kernel builds, but whether it runs 
>correctly under all circumstances :-)
>
Of course.  But, "all circumstances" is difficult to test... :-)

The BCM4704 kernels that I've been building seem to be running find, so 
far.  Hopefully they will continue to do so... :-)

John

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John W. Linville
LVL7 Systems, Inc.