Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Stupid Linux Distributions | Date | 16 May 1999 11:54:31 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9905151403420.24731-100000@mtrausch.wcnet.org>, Michael B. Trausch <mtrausch@wcnet.org> wrote: >Ugh. Why do they have to patch the kernel before they send it off in a >distribtuion?
a) Adding new features that aren't in the baseline kernel: The Mastodon kernel (2.0.28) is patched to include my new.new.mem memory patch (essential), the boot logo patch (ditto), the WebShield let-every-ethernet-driver- autoprobe-because-its-Unix-damnit patch (ditto), a hack to the ide driver so that it won't arbitrarily trim the disk size of large disks (ditto), a whole bunch of 2.0.36 ethernet drivers (ditto), a bunch of other patches that get rid of (IMO) useless driver initialization messages (not essential, but nice), and probably a few more that I can't think of offhand.
b) Unpatched Linux kernel Makefiles (2.0.x) won't compile on Mastodon, because they have GNUisms in them. (things like ``find <something> -maxdepth'' makes Berkeley find laugh hysterically, (k)sh doesn't do ``if hash encaps'' the same way bash does; I've still not figured out why menuconfig doesn't work at all, but at least I can point users at xconfig, because tk just works.)
____ david parsons \bi/ make menuconfig gives a single-line menu, which is \/ not exactly useful.
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