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cbolin
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 Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:16 am Post subject: where are Kernel features described? |
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| Is there anywhere to see alist of differences in any of the different kernels available and vanilla? |
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moocha
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cbolin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Thanks I was aware of that but:
| Quote: | gentoo-dev-sources
The gentoo-dev-sources ebuild includes the most up-to-date 2.6 kernel with Gentoo's optimized performance patches.
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Is a little less descriptive than what I was looking for...
And trying to piece together what is supported in a kernel is sorta like googling individual ingredients in hopes of discovering a recipe.
Anyone else? |
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moocha
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Ahh, I see what you mean, sorry.
Well, there'd be two ways of doing it then.
The Hardcore Geek way would be to look at the patches (emerge -pf --nodeps gentoo-sources to see what the patch tarball is called, then peeking at it).
The Cheater's Cheap Way Out (to be preferred  ) would be to contact the patchset maintainer via IRC or whatnot and ask...
The officially supported kernel sources ebuilds also usually install some Changelog or README or whatnot under /usr/share/doc somewhere - IIRC, there's a list of the patches applied, and you could google for those.
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