1 May
2010
1 May
'10
8:56 p.m.
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:44:49PM -0400, maillists0@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when
making
a version jump this large. Are my drivers likely to break?
*All* bets are off with this. It's unsupported and for good reason. Redhat has, literally, *many hundreds* of patches in the kernels they ship that the vanilla kernel kits don't provide, it is entirely likely hardware support is different including drivers.That's exactly what I was wondering about. That said, I'm willing to sort
through it all if I can just find the right docs, but I'm just inexperienced enough that I don't know where to start looking.
Redhat has a kernel src rpm available. Is that patched? If I started with the vanilla kernel, where might I find guidance on how to apply the Redhat patches? Is this a completely crazy idea?