On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John R. Dennison <j...@gerdesas.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, maillis...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when > making > > a version jump this large. Are my drivers likely to break? > > *All* bets are off with this. It's unsupported and for good > reason. Redhat has, literally, *many hundreds* of patches in the > kernels they ship that the vanilla kernel kits don't provide, > it is entirely likely hardware support is different including > drivers. > > > That's exactly what I was wondering about. That said, I'm willing to sort through it all if I can just find the right docs, but I'm just inexperienced enough that I don't know where to start looking. Redhat has a kernel src rpm available. Is that patched? If I started with the vanilla kernel, where might I find guidance on how to apply the Redhat patches? Is this a completely crazy idea?
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