On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:54:47AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:35:56PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Quite honestly, I don't think we deviate enough from the mainline kernels > > enough to warrant such a thing. The main patches we include are the stable > > kernel patches, misc fixes backported from linus' git repo, architecture > > patches (that don't affect 99% of our users, as 99% of our users are using > > x86 or x86_64 kernels), and legacy feature/modularization patches that we're > > trying to get rid of. When we upgrade to the latest linus release, we end > > up dropping the majority of our patches. Our goal is to get as close to > > mainline as possible, so that we're not maintaining a huge set of patches. > > Ok fine, so the main reason for a different uname -r from mainline seems > to be to allow installing more than one kernel compiled with different > options on the same system (or other buildsystem details), right?
Exact, ... They all are built from the same sources, except for a few m68k and maybe mips/hppa patches. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
