[hcflinux] Computer freezes with hcf drivers

[Marc Boucher]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:08:04AM +0100, tom wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> I thought all kernels in the 2.2.x and 2.4.x series were supported?
> 
> "HCF for Linux drivers . . . should work on most current Linux
> distributions, based on the 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels."

"should work" does not necessarily mean "will work". Although quite a few
people still successfully use our drivers under 2.2, there are some issues
with the older kernels which we cannot always avoid.

Generally I think that our energy is better spent improving driver stability
and functionality on modern kernels rather than wasting hours testing
or investigating weird interactions with legacy versions.

On the distribution side, SuSE 7.1 is hardly current. 8.0 is the latest
version. Before that there were 7.2 and 7.3. My advice to those complaining
about problems with really old kernels/distributions is: upgrade!

Marc

> From the Description page for HCF.
> 
> IIRC Alex has installed from source rpm - so it is not just SuSE 7.1
> that is causing it.
> 
> I have SuSE 7.0/2.2.something as secondary boot on this machine so I am curious to know what the story is.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 06:41:12PM -0400, Marc Boucher wrote:
> > If I understand correctly you are running suse 7.1 with a 2.2.18 kernel,
> > which we do not officially support. Did you try their latest 2.4 kernel?
> > (available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/kernel/2.4.16
> > or a faster mirror like ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/7.1_update/kernel)
> > 
>