On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06.07, Dana J. Laude wrote:
I really don't think that you actually "lose" functionality on a hand rolled kernel vs a SuSE provided one.
Download the src.rpm, break out the patches and see for yourself. A lot of stuff in there finds its way into the mainline kernel, some is already there, like backports of the latest bug fixes from the bk tree, but other stuff isn't. The bootsplash and the early logging are the most obvious examples. The kernel debugger, precompiled nvidia and ATI drivers, SElinux patches, subfs, there's a lot of stuff in there that you won't get by just grabbing the latest kernel.org kernel
User space applications won't see a big difference of course, if that's what you meant. Things will still run
Thanks for the heads up Anders, I'll have to take a look at the src.rpm. I have not had to do a custom kernel yet under 9.1, since my hardware is well supported under the stock SuSE kernel. (minus some fudging around I have to do yet for my bt878 WinTV Go card) In debian, I always have to do a custom kernel, because of my built-in soundcard, plus a few other tweaks for the nvidia chipset. Dana