Re: Why compiling.

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hallo Andrei,

Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU:
> On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote:
> > And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a
> > specific machine is portable?
> 
> Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of
> your router machine gets corrupted, then you can just copy the file
> from another machine ;)

Nothing prevents you from having an own and distro kernel installed side 
by side as long as you do not use the official version appendices. I usually 
have:

martin@merkaba:~> ls -1 /boot/vmlinuz-3.*
/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-3.4-trunk-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc4-tp520
/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc5-tp520
/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc6-tp520+

Pick yourself which are the distro ones ;).

I always have two kernel versions installed, should one break during an 
upgrade.

That aside: The kernel of my ASUS WL-500g Premium is certainly not a 
Debian distro standard one which might not even fit into that 8 MB of 
internal flash. Its not a self compiled one either cause I didn´t yet 
manage to get one build but I trusted a developer who compiled one for the 
machine (Debwrt).

For that machine I am not aware of any Debian kernel which would work out 
of the box and is also in main Debian repositories.

Ciao,
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