From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:55:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119125531.GD15942@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73tznlbzfs.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:25:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> devzero@web.de writes:
>
> > does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ?
> >
> > i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel sources and thus turning it into their own specific version.
>
> There used to be such a page at kernelnewbies, but at some point it disappeared.
>
> I agree it would be a useful resource.
As one of the persons who used to maintain that information on kernelnewbies
I agree. It's just quite a bit of work and these days it's not always easy
to get at the vendor kernels anymore either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-19 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-16 19:45 distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other devzero
2007-11-16 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-17 5:17 ` ewanm89
2007-11-19 12:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2007-11-17 12:32 devzero
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