Re: Did kernel 3.11 never work?

[Maurice R Volaski]

I'm trying to build a computer with network diagnostic tool, https://software.internet2.edu/ndt/ and it requires patches to the kernel, https://www.web10g.org/. The latest kernel for which there are patches, 3.17, doesn't compile with the patches, so I had to progressively retrogress until I can found one that did.

ï-----Original Message-----
From: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 at 10:54
To: Maurice R Volaski <maurice.volaski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Did kernel 3.11 never work?

    On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:37:17PM +0000, Maurice R Volaski wrote:
    > I am trying to use kernel 3.11 on VirtualBox or VMWare, but it hangs at boot
    > right after the message "Booting the kernel". Under VMWare, VMWare gives a
    > message that it received an instruction to halt the CPU.
    > 
    > I have tried different editions of 3.11 and they all are affected the same
    > way. Does anyone know why this and a way to fix it?
    
    Not that many memories about this one, but why would anyone try to
    figure what was wrong on a kernel that's been dead for 4 years now
    and after which thousands of bugs have been fixed, possibly the one
    that affects you ?
    
    Willy