I intend to install kernel 2.6 on my machine. Is there something I need to know before I start? Do I need to compile in the devfs support -- it's marked as obsolete at kernel documentation, but AFAIK mandatory for gentoo-operation. Do I need to remove alsa packages -- it is supposed to be incorporated in the kernel. Is there an ebuild for new modutils and if there is, can the 2.4 version and 2.6 version co-exist side by side, so that I will allways be able to roll back? Finally, is there any gentoo-specific kernel-2.6 documentation?
When you do 'emerge development-sources' make sure to read the warning message that it prints out at the end of the emerge. It lets you know some important things that you need to enabled in your 2.6 kernel. I don't think you need alsa-driver anymore as development-sources provides virtual/alsa, but it doesn't hurt to have both, I believe. As for modutils, you need the 2.5/2.6 version called module-init-tools. After you emerge this, you probably want to 'emerge -C modutils'. I've been running a 2.5/2.6 kernel for about 6 months. The other day, I wasn't paying much attention when doing a 'emerge -uD world' and modutils got upgraded. That overwrote my module-init-tools files and I couldn't load any modules until I did 'emerge module-init-tools'.
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