Linux kernels: a short note

[Jonathan Hartje]

Doh! Never mind. A little pointing and click reveals the ftp and the 
linux-2.6.11.tar.gz... I'll give this a try and see what happens. Thanks 
again for the help.

Jon

Jonathan Hartje wrote:

> 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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