Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb Steve Blackwell um 1:17:
> I downloaded the kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521 rpm and then the
> voluntary preemption patch voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 from
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/voluntary-preempt/older and placed
this
> in the kernel source directory. Then using the instructions from the
> low latency wiki, http://wiki.philkern.de/5.html, I ran this command: > > patch -p1 --dry-run < ./voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 > > I get a bunch of errors. Here is the beginning of the output:
That is "normal" because the Fedora kernel is no vanilla kernel from kernel.org which is the target for the patch. It is a 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 kernel version with lots of other patches.
So the .521 in kernel-2.6.8-1.521 means it's been patched 521 times?
Is there some place that explains the naming conventions? I would guess that the rc4 in 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 means Release Candidate #4 which then turned into 2.6.8-1 but what about the bk3 bit? Also is there somewhere that lists the differences between a vanilla 2.6.8-1 kernel and the one release with Fedora Core 2?
I will try with a vanilla kernel and look around for a patch to match the Fedora kernel.
Thanks, Steve.
