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From: Bob Wya <bob.mt.wya@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easy (cough) way to build earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel?
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:06
Message-Id: CANH8R7-H=2-Zir1_a__Ff3oEXjSx66-9RF9QguvZ8BLhbJwQCw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Easy (cough) way to build earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel? by Nicolas Sebrecht
1 @Nicolas
2 This is the first place I went to. But I don't understand what all the
3 different tar balls of gentoo kernel patch-sets actually mean. It would
4 nice if the site had a little a bit of Wiki love to make it clearer. For
5 example I can't figure out what steps are needed to apply the patchsets, to
6 a vanilla kernel, to get a gentoo-sources kernel.
7
8 On 31 March 2015 at 00:16, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>
9 wrote:
10
11 > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 06:45:40PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
12 >
13 > > You can use git. I believe gentoo patches are only for config options so
14 > if you
15 > > configure it with make oldconfig it *should* be the same as using gentoo-
16 > > sources.
17 >
18 > Actually no, gentoo-sources aren't vanilla kernel while efforts are made
19 > to avoid including intrusive patches.
20 >
21 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/about.htm
22 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches
23 >
24 > ,-)
25 >
26 > --
27 > Nicolas Sebrecht
28 >
29 >
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31
32 --
33
34 All the best,
35 Robert

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