According to Ray Olszewski: While burning my CPU.
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> At 10:55 PM 4/30/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote [abridged]:
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> >There is only one kernel and thats a "linux-kernel" , the misunderstanding
> >comes about because it would seem some distributions choose to install
> >things in different ways, anyhow the linux kernel source code resides in
> >/usr/src/linux-2.x.x and has a symbolic link called linux linked to it.
> >I have installed most distributions and i have never found one yet which has
> >the kernel code in any other place.
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> I think you've overstated things a bit here. I know of at least one
> distributor of Linux-based *hardware* (VA Research) that has included its
> own patches in the 2.0.x kernels it shipped. The one I specifically know of
> was a patch (that was available from their Website, BTW, but not in the
> official list of patches) that corrected the +64MB detection problem quite
> some time before that was fixed in the official kernels.
No not realy, i meant what i said, "linux-kernel" i also said it resides in
/usr/src/linux which was in answer to the question where does the source
reside.
If a distributor decides to alter the "linux-kernel-source" and make a
kernel with his/her name, then it is still a "linux kernel", as the statement
says below, the source code "might" not be identical, I'll bet a pound to a
penny it still resides in /usr/src/linux tho'.
As to the 64+mb fix the patch which fixed it was sent to the linux-kernel
mailing list a long time before it got included into the source.
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> Currently, the README file in VA's kernel ftp directory
> (ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/kernel/) includes this warning:
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> "Kernels available here may not be identical to the original kernel
> source from Linus. See the table below and the ChangeLog file with
> each kernel. In particular, device drivers may have been added or
> upgraded from the official release. Also, drivers may be tuned for VA
> systems by the adjustment of various #define parameters in the source
> code. Full sources are provided for any modifications. In all of our
> recent kernel release patch files with diffs from the stock kernels
> released by Linus are included."
>
> Now a system vendor is different from a distribution publisher, and I don't
> actually know of any kernel variations in at least the major distributions
> (though I wonder about Stampede) ... but the "only one kernel" statement is
> a bit too strong.
Nope if i had said only one "kernel-source" then i would have been wrong.
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