new kernel compile?

[Peter McAlpine]

hi.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:19:48AM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
>  You can check out the gnumach-1-branch out of cvs or download oskit from the
> utah website, www.cs.utah.edu/flux.

thanks for this, I'm downloading the cvs branch as I type.

can someone give me some pointers as far as (re)building the gnumach
kernel? Everytime I do a fresh linux install I will right away build
an updated kernel that fits my hardware more precisely... so:

is this something commonly done with hurd? Is this nessecary?

I've read lots about cross compiling... but is this the way it's done?

should I be building a fresh kernel while I'm in linux (cross-compile)
or should I do it in hurd (is this possible?).

This whole branch thing is confusing, but maybe I just haven't found
the right README file yet... the gnumach one talks about a
split... where are the details of this split, and it's implications
explained?

I'll be happy to RTFM, just point me to the FM that you think would be
most helpful for me to read. =) docs (list threads included) seem to
get outdated really quick.

-peter

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Peter McAlpine
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