on 01/30/2014 08:30 AM Mick wrote the following:
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 19:37:39 Thanasis wrote:
Sometimes folks have to stay with a kernel series, because a vendor
binary patch forces them into this situation.
That's my case, ie Nvidia drivers for a relatively old hardware (AGP
Graphics).
on 01/30/2014 12:50 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote:
Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel
sources, at least until now, isn't it?
No, not at all.
Kernels are different and portage treats them very differently.
On 30/01/2014 11:54, Thanasis wrote:
on 01/30/2014 12:50 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote:
Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel
sources, at least until now, isn't it?
No, not at all.
Kernels are different and
On 30/01/2014 17:25, James wrote:
As part of the open source community, I would think you have a
repsonsibility to *reward those vendors that work generously with the
greater open source community* ?
No, not actually. The only responsibility he has is to do whatever he
feels like doing.
It
On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 15:25:47 James wrote:
Nividia is a *VENDOR* that chooses not to provide information so
drivers can be properly maintained, historically. ATI (AMD now) is a vendor
who provides information so drivers can be maintained, even optimized, into
perpetuity.
Maybe you chose
on 01/30/2014 11:04 PM James wrote the following:
Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes:
Maybe you chose unwisely?(get ATI next time) unless
I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one
(maybe 20 years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and
On 29/01/2014 15:23, James wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
the latest gentoo-sources?
that won't work as each kernel ebuild
on 01/29/2014 03:23 PM James wrote the following:
There might be a work around that suites your needs?
# emerge -pv =gentoo-sources-3.10.28
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild NS ~]
on 01/28/2014 10:12 PM eroen wrote the following:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org
wrote:
Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
the latest gentoo-sources?
on 01/29/2014 03:36 PM James wrote the following:
Once the newer kernel series come out, the newer versions
of a series (usually) slow way down on being delivered.
Not necessarily, if some devs are maintaining a series as long term,
which, I think, is the case for the 3.10.X series (if I am
on 01/29/2014 05:59 PM James wrote the following:
Once the newer kernel series come out, the newer versions
of a series (usually) slow way down on being delivered.
Not necessarily, if some devs are maintaining a series as long term,
which, I think, is the case for the 3.10.X series (if I am
On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote:
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes:
No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a
newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world
set, the newer kernel source of the 3.10.X series won't appear as an
On 29/01/2014 21:37, Thanasis wrote:
I only use Alan Cox, as an example;
I have no idea who the long-term kernel maintainer is now, but
historically it's been somebody with a vested interest, or
some poor-unappreciated sapimho.
Googling about kernel maintainer for long term 3.10, I
on 01/29/2014 11:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote:
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes:
No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a
newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world
set, the newer
On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote:
on 01/29/2014 11:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 29/01/2014 17:35, James wrote:
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes:
No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a
newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 19:37:39 Thanasis wrote:
Sometimes folks have to stay with a kernel series, because a vendor
binary patch forces them into this situation.
That's my case, ie Nvidia drivers for a relatively old hardware (AGP
Graphics).
Wouldn't nouveau drivers overcome this
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