Kernel from gentoo or kernel.org

[dhewton]

Please forgive what may be obvious in this question:

I have just left genkernel as a way to make my kernels and now do it the manual way. WOO HOO, it is so much easier since when I first learned it with RedHat 5.0.

Anyway, now that I am doing it manually, I wonder about just downloading kernels from kernel.org: here is the question finally, what is the difference between getting kernel source from kernel.org and getting it from gentoo? I naturally think getting it from Gentoo means tweaked-peaked-freaked, but I don't want to assume anything.

Thanks

Dan
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DannyBoy

[frenkel]

If you emerge vanilla-sources, you get the same kernel as you can download from kernel.org.
If you emerge gentoo-sources, they are patched a bit, search the docs for more info about it.

[dhewton]

Which docs will tell me the difference?

Dan
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DannyBoy

[Primozic]

You can browse the patches that are added to gentoo-sources here:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/linux-patches/genpatches-2.6/trunk/

[dhewton]

Is there a chart that explains what the different kernel sources are in portage?

thanks

Dan

(why can't I just leave it alone? why can't I just accept my system the way it is? why do I believe I am not EVER getting the most out of my system? why can't I just install windows and just accept defaults? Am I sick? Are we all sick? Do I have to much time on my hands?)
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DannyBoy

[phajdan.jr]

http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/.

For more info about gentoo-sources see http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/index.htm

[dhewton]

So for the tweak freak, is the ck-sources the most tuned kernel?

Is there anything different about compiling this kerenl ie: different options when I run gconfig?

DAn
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DannyBoy

[frenkel]

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