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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: |
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> I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering |
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> if it's required that the kernel be upgraded |
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no |
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> (I'm currently running 2.6.28. |
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nothing wrong with that |
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> I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), |
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yes, it doesn't hurt. Not required, but good to have |
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> but in the event |
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> it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not |
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> have to recompile the thing. |
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so don't. |
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You only *have* to upgrade the kernel if you want some feature the current one |
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in use does not support |
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> Related, however, if I do recompile it and |
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> decide to do so with genkernel, |
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Yuck. I tell people to stay away from that thing. |
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Just learn how to do it yourself. It's not hard, you get only what you want, |
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and there are thousands of howtos all over the net |
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> will it respect the settings I've compiled |
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> into 2.6.28 or will they need to be reset again before 2.6.29 is compiled? |
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No. Not unless you give it the old config to use. IIRC it has some feature to |
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use the config for the currently running kernel (/proc/config.gz) if the |
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running kernel supports it. But I could be may off course here too. |
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> thanks for any information on the subject. |
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You'll get MUCH better answers by reading the kernel compile guide in the docs |
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section of gentoo.org. Your post implies that you have not read it, as all |
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your questions are answered in it. Knowledgeable folks here will give you the |
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same answers, so just read the doc instead... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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