On 11/7/07, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/7/07, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257&q=andrew+mor...
Andrew Morton talks about some aspects of the linux kernel. Near the end of the video, he talks about how to contribute and he says that both Fedora and Open Suse provide -linus snapshots of the kernel.
I couldn't find this snapshots. Could any of you point me to the proper place?
Fedora tends to follow upstream quickly so the new releases of the kernel are available in the standard repository. The development repository (Rawhide) would have the latest snapshots. Also refer
http://people.redhat.com/davej/
My second question is: How far are the Fedora kernels from the equivalent Vanilla ones? Andrew says it's okay to use Fedora/Open Suse kernels to report problems. Does this means that these kernels are very close to the vanilla version?
Yes or atleast that's the goal.
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/85039.html
This is not just for the kernel but for the entire distribution on the whole.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
Rahul
Thanks for the information and for the links. I'll have a look to them.
Cheers
As a related question, I would like to know it it is possible to install a vanilla kernel in Fedora without big problems. By big problems I mean module loading problems (kernel version doesn't match, etc..) and those things.
And taking into account that Fedora recommends to install the kernel as a "normal" rpm package, is there any guide or howto to know how to build an rpm from a vanilla kernel?
I saw the vanilla directory inside the BUILD directory when the kernel sources are installed. Can I do something with that? Maybe comment out the patch sections in the spec file to create a vanilla rpm package?
Thanks in advance
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