hmm when i read the change log isnt 2.4.20-rc4 really 2.4.20 you could just use that?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] kernel annoucement > Quoting Bill Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Michael Fox wrote > > > > >I've been playing with 2.4.20-rc4 and 2.4.20-rc4-ac1 through the day. > > And then > > >just before I went to look on kernel.org again to see what other > > patches I > > >could get, only to find that 2.4.20 had been merged into the tree. > > > > > >I think I will be doing a make-kpkg in a moment to build a kernel > > 2.4.20 for my > > >nat box at home and also my parents nat box which is still sitting on > > 2.4.17 or > > >so :) > > > > > as you do your .config , would you mind letting me know what via chip is > > > > listed for sound in 2.4.20 please? i spent quite some time downloading > > > > 2.4.19, to find that it doesn,t handle my kt266a agpset > > Little tip.. > > If you already have full source tar.gz for 2.4.19, then say untar it > to /usr/src/linux-2.4.19, now go download patch-2.4.20.gz. gunzip patch- > 2.4.20.gz into say /usr/src > > Now cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 > > "patch -p1 < /usr/src/patch-2.4.20" [enter] > > Once thats complete... you could now copy the entire contents of linux-2.4.19 > into a directory say linux-2.4.20. Now if you go do a make menuconfig in that > patched source tree. You will now have a 2.4.20 source tree ;) > > The patches between kernels save you downloading the entire tar.gz source ball > for each release :) > > Next time I am looking at my 2.4.20 .config I will let you know. But I am > guessing you will try what I said above.. to confirm it works ;) neat trick or > what. > > Cheers > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
