From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264066AbTGKQJS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264085AbTGKQJR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:17 -0400 Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net ([68.6.19.244]:29126 "EHLO fed1mtao01.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264066AbTGKQJI (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:23:45 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030711162345.GW17433@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:02:19PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > Known gotchas. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the > workarounds. > - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? > Make sure your .config has > CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and > running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably > with CONFIG_VT not being set. /boot/config-$(uname -r) will be looked at before arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig potentially leading to some of the above (i.e. CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_CONSOLE (or so) unset) if you don't look at every menu / submenu in menuconfig / xconfig, and even more awkward results if cross compiling for another arch. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/