Howdy, I did my update and noticed the message about changes to kernel packages. Depending on how I read it, it sounds like gentoo-sources is still available just that older versions are no longer updated as long. If I read it a different way, it sounds like gentoo-sources is about to stop existing. That last one doesn't sound right. I can't imagine it just going away since there are Gentoo specific stuff in there, openrc I think being one option lurking about somewhere. I think there is others but been a while since I been poking around in there. gentoo-sources is hanging around right?
Currently I'm running 5.14.15 gentoo-sources kernel. It works but is old. No new types of hardware. Most stuff I buy is older just because it tends to be more supported anyway. I tried a good while back to upgrade to 6.1.55 which sort of boots I think but something doesn't work and all I get is a console. It's been a while since I tried it but it did fail several times. I did the upgrade the usual way. I used make oldconfig and went through all the answers which are mostly no since I still have old hardware. Is there a better way than oldconfig? Is there a way to start from scratch and list all the stuff that is on in the old kernel and then compare that to the newer kernel so I can just enable what is different but I need? I'd rather avoid going through all the menus hoping I recognize everything. I forget what I went to the kitchen for. Remembering kernel options from years ago is likely to not end well. :/ Is it possible that version of kernel had bad bugs that made it a bad idea with hindsight? I plan to upgrade to the newest version in the tree if I try again. Any thoughts? Ideas? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
