Re: how to detect a debian kernel from `uname -r`
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
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