Re: Kernel compiling....
On Wed, 04 May 2005, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Marc Haber ha scritto:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:01:02PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
> >
> >
> >> sorry for the maybe stupid and repetitive question, is it possible to
> >>use the nice features of make-kpkg also with a vanilla kernel coming
> >>from kernel.org or is it required to use the kernel-source from debian
> >>repositories?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >make-kpkg works with vanilla kernels as well.
> >
> >Currently, it looks like the Debian kernel development has kind of
> >lost communication to the kernel-package maintainer since the kernel
> >sources keep popping up with features that would look more canonical
> >inside kernel-package's code to allow them to be used with vanilla
> >kernels as well.
> >
> >Greetings
> >Marc
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks for your hint.... My need of using vanilla kernels is only
> related to the fact that in the debian releases of 2.6.11 kernel, they
> have wipe out the tg3 broadcom network driver. It seems that it has
> moved to kernel-source-nonfree but it is not on the official
> repositories (i'm running on unstable). I would like to try the vanilla
> kernel and then when things will be stabilized with the nonfree section
> i'll return back to debian's kernel-source.
>
> Regards,
> MC
if you looked at bit in the archive you should have stumbled on that link:
-> http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/
--
maks
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