On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:57:22 +0100, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:20:11 +0100 > "Jonas Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After the resent discussion on the user list about getting a kernel >> module >> to work, I remembered an old discussion about how to match module with >> kernel version if someone made a package with a kernel module. Somehow >> it >> should be visible on the package name which kernel is needed so >> InstallPackage could fetch the correct package. > > Moreover, it could be a version window. For instance, there are some > funky > drivers that were released for 2.X.XX, and as long as they work, a new > one is > not released. > Problem is that the modules need to be compilefor the exact kernel version as they check that and fail to load unless the versions of the running kernel and the kernel sources used to compile the kernel match. > I believe this would only require slightly different kernel > configurations, > for different i686 CPUs (and, why not, amd64 even using a x86-32 base > system?). > > The drawback is that this may create weird arch-specific bug reports. > But you > can always blame Lucas! :) > Yes, blame Lucas ;) To be honest I don't think we could handle multiple architechtures. I mean we don't even do it unoficially now, how should we have time to do it officially? -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
