Linux kernels: a short note

[Jonathan Hartje]

Joseph,
    I'm still a little confused. Where do I download just the 2.6.11 
source? I only see the link to 2.6.11-11.

Thanks,
Jon

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

>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
>
>==================================================================
>
>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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