On 11/1/05, karlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > hm, seems to be relatively straight forward, at least the patching. Yet > still some questions remain for me, for example, > how can I upgrade to this kernel version (from 2.6.13-r5) to 2.6.14, when > emerge won't do it by itself. I guess I should not simply download the > sources mentioned by MArk > and do it, as this might break something. > Also, in how far is it important to apply the other patches, which are > applied to gentoo-sources? > > Karsten >
Karsten, My inputs were never suggested as an addition to gentoo-sources. This would be a completely parallel path to take. NOTE: Why update 2.6.13-r5 to 2.6.14? Why not just build 2.6.14? In my case I do not know how to: 1) Determine what patches the Gentoo devs add to gentoo-sources AND why they added them. 2) When someone here is kind enough to point out how I find the answer to #1 then I still have no idea how to determine which of those patches are important to me and my machines. My preferences in this area have always been: 1) Use gentoo-sources if it works for my application. I have 5 Gentoo boxes here at home and 3 at my parents house. Of the 8 machines 7 run gentoo-sources. 2) Use some other kernel if required. It seems that on my AMD64 machine I am (so far) unable to get the same acceptable realtime performance as I get on my IA-32 machines using gentoo-sources. When I determine that I can I will go back to running gentoo-sources on AMD64. I don't know if any of this is helping you. I can only hope. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
