- You can use the 2.6.7 vanilla kernel with SUSE, nobody forces you to use the SUSE patched kernel.
Is it the problem of nVidia that vannila kaernel(2.6.7) failed to start up X ? startx command aborted in vannila kaernel. append a log at that time. But SUSE's Kernel no problem. On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:12:40 +0200 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
Come on, let's get some facts together - and yes, I'm working for SUSE;-)
- Currently no distribution can ship a vanilla kernel:
* For example to support AMD64, a small patch has to be issued for 2.6.7 (details on the discuss at amd64.org mailing list). The patch is getting smaller each kernel release - and has different patches in it.
- SUSE is dedicated to get all patches in the official kernel.
- During release phase, we do not import all patches from Linus, just those that fix critical bugs. Therefore our 2.6.5 kernel contains lots of patches that you'll find in 2.6.6 and 2.6.7. The 2.6.4 kernel contained already for example the new VM that just went in...
- We try to add for each patch a boiler plate and a ChangeLog (kernel-source.changes), for example:
------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Jun 17 15:35:34 CEST 2004 - ak@suse.de
- Fix bad use of __initdata in x86-64 mce code [this patch has no boilerplate but others have]
- You can use the 2.6.7 vanilla kernel with SUSE, nobody forces you to use the SUSE patched kernel.
- We add a number of new drivers that the vendors have not submitted (and work with them to get them submitted but this takes time).
- The linux kernel developers make no guarantee that the internal ABI interface stays the same.
- And guys - there's even a README.SUSE in the kernel-source and if that commercial OSS guys had read it, they would even had less problems.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N__rnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126