Re: What is a Kernel?
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:14:17PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
>> kernel-source contains the source code for a given kernel version.
>>
>> kernel-package contains tools for creating custom debian packages for
>> installing a specific kernel configuration on many machines.
>
>So what is kernel-source there for? There isn't a package called
>fileutils-source, for example?
kernel-source-<ver> is the source used to build kernel-image-<ver>,
which is not necessarily the same as the upstream kernel source. The
README.Debian in kernel-source-2.2.17 for example contains:
These patches were appllied:
* Big Physical Area (2.2.5)
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/heiss/linux/bigphysarea.html
These modifications were also made:
* Don't align the stack by 16 bytes on i386.
* Fixed a typo in tgafb.c.
* Added CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT.
* Fixed a typo in aha152x.c.
* __asm__ fixes for egcs (hfmodem/refclock.c).
* Fixed a couple of argument processing bugs in main.c (Eric Delaunay).
Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea bod@compusol.com.au
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