From: db1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Bolla) Subject: Re: Problems with 0.95 Date: 11 Mar 1992 11:09:44 GMT
In article <1992Mar10.000359.18291@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>While I hoped 0.95 would solve all major problems people had with linux,
>I was wrong (surprise, surprise). I've had reports of three different
Murphy's law ? :-)
>I think I've found the problem with (1) - it seems to be a missing
>recalibration after read/write errors (add a "recalibrate = 1;" to
>floppy.c: bad_flp_intr()), but the reason(s) for the others are still
>shrouded in mystery.
Would it be possible to compile .95 with the gcc 1.40 ?
It is a stable ( isn't it ? ) 'c' compiler and it will allow people
to compile their own kernel.
This will introduce one less variable ( The new gcc 2.0 ) in the
system testing....
Damiano