Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Raffaele Morelli
<raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/5/13 George <nutndun@comcast.net>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwiseman@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:43 AM
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
>> > * Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> [2009 May 12 23:06 -0500]:
>> >> According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
>> >> the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in
>> >> testing 2.6.26?
>> >
>> > In my experience, there is no point in bringing in a more recent
>> > kernel package until 2.6.30 is released which includes drm and video
>> > driver fixes required by the latest Xorg packages although the latest
>> > 2.6.2902 package enabled 3D rendering again in the latest Xorg
>> > packages in Sid, at least for the Radeon chipset.
>>
>> >The reason I asked is that network-manager has been freezing my system
>> > and
>> the maintainer, who believes it's a kernel problem, >asked me to test it
>> against the latest kernel. But I really don't want to get ahead of, or
>> out
>> of sync with, where testing is.
>>
>> >Patrick
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>> You can build the latest kernel the debian way and will be selectable from
>> the boot manager. Do your testing and once you are done you can always
>> uninstall it like a normal package. There are a few good how to's on the
>> debian forums regarding building your own kernel the debian way.
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> +1
> I build kernel from vanilla sources every time a new RT patch is released.
>
> It's really easy, just take care to the latest changes in kernel-package
> regarding --initrd option.
Thanks, guys, for suggesting that - I used to build a custom kernel
the "Debian way" all the time, but am out of the habit. I'll get back
into it.
Patrick
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