On Wed, 04 May 2005, Marco Calviani wrote: > Marc Haber ha scritto: > > >Hi, > > > >On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:01:02PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > > > > > >> sorry for the maybe stupid and repetitive question, is it possible to > >>use the nice features of make-kpkg also with a vanilla kernel coming > >>from kernel.org or is it required to use the kernel-source from debian > >>repositories? > >> > >> > > > >make-kpkg works with vanilla kernels as well. > > > >Currently, it looks like the Debian kernel development has kind of > >lost communication to the kernel-package maintainer since the kernel > >sources keep popping up with features that would look more canonical > >inside kernel-package's code to allow them to be used with vanilla > >kernels as well. > > > >Greetings > >Marc > > > > > > > Thanks for your hint.... My need of using vanilla kernels is only > related to the fact that in the debian releases of 2.6.11 kernel, they > have wipe out the tg3 broadcom network driver. It seems that it has > moved to kernel-source-nonfree but it is not on the official > repositories (i'm running on unstable). I would like to try the vanilla > kernel and then when things will be stabilized with the nonfree section > i'll return back to debian's kernel-source. > > Regards, > MC if you looked at bit in the archive you should have stumbled on that link: -> http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11/
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