Re: Kernel

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

The VA patches are a superset of the RH patches.  Hence you can VA and
get one stop shopping for Linus + Red Hat (Alan Cox + others) + VA kernel.


On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Spencer Portee wrote:

> yeah, but what if you need something under both kernels?  isn't it
> possible for the patches to flail...er..fail?
> 
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> moo> 
> moo> No, you can go to ftp.redhat.com or ftp.valinux.com and download their
> moo> patches/patched kernels.  This is unlike the BSD license which would not
> moo> require that they release their code.  (or so I understand)
> moo> 
> moo> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Spencer Portee wrote:
> moo> 
> moo> > this was the answer I was looking for.  That (the splitting up in ra and
> moo> > va) is a bad thing, no?  I mean now people will have to buy redhat linux
> moo> > instead of leenux.
> moo> > 
> moo> > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Aaron Turner wrote:
> moo> > 
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> /me realized that he didn't competely answer the question...
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> 2.2.12-6 is the 6th iteration of the Red Hat 6.1 kernel which is based on
> moo> > moo> 2.2.12.  RH and VA like to tweak the kernel a little bit for various
> moo> > moo> reasons.
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> VA actually bases their kernels on the RH kernels.  I don't really konw
> moo> > moo> what RH does to them, but I know VA adds patches so that the kernel runs
> moo> > moo> better on their hardware (often the lastest DAC960 or SymBios driver
> moo> > moo> doesn't make it into the lastest stable kernel).
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Spencer Portee wrote:
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> > moo> Well I looked at the 2.2.13 readme, and looks like there are a number of
> moo> > moo> > moo> fixes that are applicable to us (networking, security, and SMP) that the
> moo> > moo> > moo> stock 2.2.12 kernel doesn't have.  I know the 2.2.12-6 kernel on VA's site
> moo> > moo> > moo> is based on a pre-RH 6.1 kernel, so I'm pretty certain that it doesn't
> moo> > moo> > moo> have the fixes.
> moo> > moo> > 
> moo> > moo> > how many kernels ARE there??  I thoguth it was just the splitting up of
> moo> > moo> > the beta and stable, but what are these others?
> moo> > moo> > 
> moo> > moo> 
> moo> > moo> --
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> moo> 
> moo> --
> moo> Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
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