Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Hi all,
I this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257&q=andrew+morton+linux+kernel&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Andrew Morton talks about some aspects of the linux kernel. Near the
end of the video, he talks about how to contribute and he says that
both Fedora and Open Suse provide -linus snapshots of the kernel.
I couldn't find this snapshots. Could any of you point me to the proper place?
My second question is: How far are the Fedora kernels from the
equivalent Vanilla ones? Andrew says it's okay to use Fedora/Open Suse
kernels to report problems. Does this means that these kernels are
very close to the vanilla version?
Thanks in advance
Install the rpmdevtools.
Install the kernel src rpm.
Go to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES and examine the MANY kernel patches there. How
many are from Red Had/Fedora guys?
That is what he means.
Of the 408 patch files I have, 94 have contributions from RedHat.
Those patch files are the difference between the main line kernel and
the Fedora kernel. There is not a quick way (that I know of) for you or
I to check on how many of these patches are headed upstream, or have
come down from upstream.
Cheers!
