On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:06:05 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what you say is correct BUT doing without the mandrake patches is likely > to break something. a two edged sword really. > > anyway, i understood acpi is in the kernel isn't it? is it necessary to > patch? > > where do i find mandrake src.rpm's ?? I need to find what patches are > applied I guess. > yes acpi is in the kernel but there's a rather big(in size) patch which has been waiting for inclusion in stable(ie 2.4.x) for some time now. alan cox has had this patch included in his tree for a while and is satisfied that it doesn't break anything and immensely improves things for laptop users. red hat kernels are pretty well based on the ac tree. i suspect the same applies to mandrake though i've never checked this out - it's just an assumption. mandrake source trees are found at some(not all) of the mandrake mirror sites. look for dir called SRPMS. figuring out the applied patches in the mdk kernel would be a matter of checking the changelog and looking in ummm damn forgotten it .... will go and look myself and get back to you re this and re what is in the 2.4.21-0.13mdk kernel. that's a clue in itself when i think about it - 2.4.21 hasn't been released yet - well yesterday we will still at rc7 - so this kernel must be patched up big time. cheers peter ps: sorry for delay in replying - been getting poked and prodded at by the docs for most of the day.
