Hi !
does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version.
some simple version of this could be a simple browseable archive like this:
Fedora8-Kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8/vanilla:
insgesamt 44492
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45488158 10. Okt 00:50 linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1412 12. Okt 20:58 patch-2.6.23.1.bz2
Fedora8-Kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8/patches:
insgesamt 10688
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18908 3. Aug 01:37 linux-2.6-devmem.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461 12. Sep 20:35 linux-2.6-drivers-ssb-debug-revision.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 839 16. Okt 02:15 linux-2.6-drm-fix-i915-allocation.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1235 22. Okt 22:49 linux-2.6-e1000-bad-csum-allow.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52318 22. Sep 13:45 linux-2.6-execshield.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4361 9. Okt 07:18 linux-2.6-firewire-lockdep.patch
....lot`s of patches
OpenSuSE_10.3-Kernel-2.6.22.5-31/vanilla:
insgesamt 44120
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45119878 22. Sep 16:23 linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2
OpenSuSE_10.3-Kernel-2.6.22.5-31/patches:
insgesamt 10360
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:04 patches.apparmor
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:04 patches.arch
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:04 patches.drivers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:05 patches.fixes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:05 patches.kernel.org
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104687 22. Sep 16:23 supported.conf
.....even more patches
if something like this doesn`t already exist - would it be useful to start such a project ?
regards
roland
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[email protected] writes:
> does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
>
> i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version.
There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it disappeared.
I agree it would be a useful resource.
-Andi
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:25:27 +0100
Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving
> > comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s
> > kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
> >
> > i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro
> > vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into
> > their own specific version.
>
> There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it
> disappeared.
>
> I agree it would be a useful resource.
>
> -Andi
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I would also like to see something like this, as some work I'm doing on
working some funny networking (unfortunately IT department don't have
common sense) across multiple distros. Tracking the kernel patche
differences between the distros seems to be the hardest part (comparing
them to find what's needed for all distros to work).
--
Ewan Marshall (ewanm89)
Geek by nature, Linux by choice.
besides a web-browseable directory structure with all the single broken-out patches (which are typically part of src.rpm or similar) , i assume it would be good to put those patched and unpatched kernel sources online via lxr ? ( http://lxr.linux.no/ )
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "Andi Kleen" <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: 16.11.07 23:25:29
> An: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other
>
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
> >
> > i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version.
>
> There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it disappeared.
>
> I agree it would be a useful resource.
>
> -Andi
>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:25:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
> >
> > i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version.
>
> There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it disappeared.
>
> I agree it would be a useful resource.
As one of the persons who used to maintain that information on kernelnewbies
I agree. It's just quite a bit of work and these days it's not always easy
to get at the vendor kernels anymore either.