On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:04:22PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > Let me point out that Debian has always provided upstream (unmodified/ > pristine) kernel source by the means of kernel-source-x.y.z packages and > kernel-patch-<whatever> ... and so on ... Now with kernel-source-2.4.22 the > situation has been changed...
Er...what? kernel-source-x.y.z has not been unmodified since before I used Debian, if ever. Even the .orig.tar.gz has not been pristine since 2.4.10, due to the need to remove non-free firmware. Shipping modified kernel source is not a new idea in Debian. > > Escecially as an unmodified source-tree is in my experience almost only > > useful for i386. (Perhaps getting better > > Not true ;-) So called by you unmodified has all architecture-specific > code inside. Get a kernel from kernel.org or svn from bkbits.net and cd > arch/ Very clever. Now try actually building a kernel for most of those architectures. The reality of compiling working kernels involves a lot more than the presence of a few directories. -- - mdz
