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?
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?