Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

thveillon.debian wrote:
> Mark Allums wrote :
>
> > It still begs some questions.  Why don't they build/package a normal
> > kbuild that matches the dependency that the kernel header package has?
> >
> > I suppose that it will enter mainstream, instead of being in
> > kernel-archive, and then there will be a kbuild infrastructure.  Maybe
> > it is too much work for the relatively few people who roll their own
> > custom kernel.  But a lot of people use that NVidia blob.  And other
> > hardware drivers that need compiling.
> >
> > Mark
> I don't know about that, but I just checked with the 2.6.28 which is in
> unstable and it doesn't seem to have it's ready made corresponding
> kbuild either, at least aptitude didn't find it for me...
>
> Tom


Not only that, but I updated the kernel to a later snapshot
(2.6.28-2~snapshot.12968_amd64) and the kbuild version is/was an
older version (12595).  (I just checked, and the kbuild source is
not available at all right now, in any version.)

If a snapshot is version xxxxx, and the very next version is xxxxx+1, 
will the xxxxx version work?

Mark Allums