You can do it, it's probably more worth your time to rewrite the apps though, as you'd just be delaying the time until you needed to upgrade eventually.
- Rich On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Kevin K <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on what special features you might use on your system > (virtualization, third party drivers), it might be possible to build a kernel > from kernel.org. I've tried this in the past but since the latest kernel > still didn't properly support the broken hardware I didn't pursue it further. > > On Apr 15, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> I'm running S.L. 5.6 on a few machines, and have grown somewhat >> dependent on it. However, there are features in the kernel >> that comes with 6.2 (like USB3) which I would like to have. >> >> Is it possible to upgrade just the kernel and associated modules >> and "miscellaneous"? >> >> I assume this is tricky, and fraught with dangers, and the usual >> cautions (make backups, work on a copy of the disk, tweak yum >> updates so they won't regress the 2.6.32 kernel, etc) apply. >> >> For now, I just want to know whether this is worthy of further >> consideration, or instead I should set aside a few weeks to >> upgrade everything then rebuild a lot of poorly written custom >> apps. >> >> Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 >> KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" >> Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
