From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707231957450.6355@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with. I
> recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier
> or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some
> patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc. Then the result
> was
> cross checked with summary lists like this one:
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html
>
> This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that
> wasn't always trivial.
>
Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever
existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-24 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-22 20:49 Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Jon Smirl
2007-07-22 21:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 21:13 ` Paul Mundt
2007-07-22 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 22:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-22 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-22 23:26 ` Michael Tharp
2007-07-23 0:17 ` Jon Smirl
2007-07-23 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 17:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 19:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 20:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 23:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-23 23:46 ` Al Viro
2007-07-23 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 0:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-24 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-24 0:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 20:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-08-20 20:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-19 1:19 ` Oleg Verych
2007-07-23 18:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-23 19:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-23 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 20:22 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-23 0:00 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-19 19:24 ` Git tree for old kernels Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 17:16 ` Josef Sipek
2007-08-20 17:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-08-20 18:01 ` Josef Sipek
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