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Thank you for the quick response. This is why Gentoo totally rocks! If |
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you're suggesting masked vanilla-sources ebuilds which include the acpi |
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patch, I dont' think that's a good idea. I'm probably just misreading |
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your email though so that's probably not the case. |
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Having an acpi only release would probably benefit many Gentoo users. |
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Most wouldn't even need the acpi release as most don't need to use the |
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cryto-sources version for instance. It seems it would be a win-win |
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situation. The people that require the latest acpi would be able to help |
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the ACPI developers hammer it out with ease. |
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This brings up another question. I also track the development/beta |
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kernel (2.5.x) in ebuilds. Is this something that might be useful? There |
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could be a /usr/portage/sys-kernel/beta-sources/ What do you think? |
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Tom Prado |
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Brandon Low wrote: |
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>Hi, I've recently become the kernel maintainer for gentoo, I assure you |
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>that the ACPI patches are on the list for inclusion once I can give them |
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>enough testing and get them integrated into our kernel cleanly. Until |
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>then, I suggest using the vanilla sources kernel ebuild and applying the |
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>patch yourself. |
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>This gives me an idea though, and I will probably be making pre-release |
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>linux-kernel ebuilds which will go with the vanilla-sources but always be |
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>masked. |
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>Thanks for using gentoo! |
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>--Brandon |
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>On Sat, 09/07/02 at 00:35:28 -0400, Tom Prado wrote: |
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>>Hi all, |
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>>I have one of those newer laptops which require ACPI support in the OS. |
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>> (It's a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607) Because of this, I've been |
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>>maintaining my own line of kernel ebuilds in |
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>>/usr/portage.local/sys-kernel/acpi-sources. I've been keeping up with |
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>>the acpi kernel patches via ebuilds since the |
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>>acpi-20020611-2.4.18.diff.gz release. These ACPI patches are available |
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>>at http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ |
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>>I'm curious if there is a want for this in the main portage tree. I can |
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>>provide my latest ebuild which provides |
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>>acpi-20020829-2.4.20-pre5.diff.gz patched against the kernel release |
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>>2.4.19 after it's been updated to 2.4.20-pre5. |
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>>Just tell me who I should send the ebuild to. I can create an ebuild |
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>>request in http://bugs.gentoo.org if desired. |
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>>Thanks for your time, |
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>>Tom Prado |
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