On 10/10/07, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > > Do you know where you can download the SUSE Patches? I was under the > > impression they were not avaliable. > > > > That I'm not sure about - I'd guess you could extract them from the > kernel source rpm. > > Also, yeah, I think I am going to go ahead with the Vanilla.. Now I just > > gotta > > brush up on my Kernel skills.. I've loved the patched stuff from SUSE, but I > > think .23 has enough changes for me to give it a go. > > > It was fairly easy to leverage suse features to move to the new kernel. > > make cloneconfig > save .config file > install new kernel source > copy .config to new kernel src dir > make oldconfig > make > make modules_install > make install > > Boot into 2.6.23 - > > Joe
That preserves the SUSE config, but it loses all the SUSE kernel patches. As an example the SATA-PMP patches are in the suse kernel, but not in 2.6.23. That patchset along is a couple thousand lines of source (iirc). Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
