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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:59, Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> wrote |
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> about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?': |
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>> I think gcc version should not have impact on X because NVidia's drivers |
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>> are binary, closed source - they don't care about the gcc used to |
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>> compile the kernel or the X server. Actually I think the emerge only |
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>> installs those drivers and checks for common configuration errors. |
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> No, there's no way to make a pure binary driver that works on all systems, |
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> because symbols in the kernel will be at different locations depending on |
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> options it was compiled with. |
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Should this mean, that you have to recompile all the drivers already |
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installed after recompiling the kernel with a new feature added or after |
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upgrading it up to newer version? |
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