Linux kernels: a short note

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

For the current pre-patch version, The base release to patch is 2.6.11,
not 2.6.11.11 [I have been bitten by this one before :-)]

See:

        http://kernel.org/patchtypes/pre.html

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:58 -0500, Jonathan Hartje wrote:
> Joseph,
>     I was just working on this a few minutes ago. I downloaded the 11.11 
> source and patch-rc5 files from kernel.org. I patched the kernel source 
> but an umable to build the kernel sucessfully. (i.e. mmap.o fails 
> because of an incompatible function call). Assuming I'm in the newly 
> untared source dir and the patch has also been bunzipped, is the 
> following patch command correct?
> 
> hartje at envy> patch -p1 < ../patch-2.6.12-rc5
> 
> Any info is greatly appreciated. BTW, I'm building with a stock 4.0.1 
> install on a new 1.67 GHz powerbook.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> >YDL-4.0.1 appears to run OK under:
> >
> >* linux-2.6.11.11 [current stable version of kernel]
> >* linux-2.6.12-rc5
> >
> >Graphics support for NVIDIA GeForce2MX cards is still broken.
> >
> >
> >-Joseph
> >
> >  
> >
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