From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763594AbXKPTtT (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:49:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753087AbXKPTtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:49:12 -0500 Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:61101 "EHLO fmmailgate05.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809AbXKPTtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:49:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:45:28 +0100 Message-Id: <2089856624@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: devzero@web.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: =?iso-8859-15?Q?distro_specific_kernels_vs_vanilla_kernel_and_how_to_c?= =?iso-8859-15?Q?ompare_among_each_other?= Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ X-Provags-Id: V01U2FsdGVkX1/LwaMXcvrlOPorV0yc+PAekk/xNBTzyBwx/5vc67IMWbt/L mVvVKpJw6BzgSc/T8op8YV7pxkSlyUpboOw5jK3Io9krOohXfI= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi ! 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. some simple version of this could be a simple browseable archive like this: Fedora8-Kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8/vanilla: insgesamt 44492 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:24 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45488158 10. Okt 00:50 linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1412 12. Okt 20:58 patch-2.6.23.1.bz2 Fedora8-Kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8/patches: insgesamt 10688 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:24 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18908 3. Aug 01:37 linux-2.6-devmem.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461 12. Sep 20:35 linux-2.6-drivers-ssb-debug-revision.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 839 16. Okt 02:15 linux-2.6-drm-fix-i915-allocation.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1235 22. Okt 22:49 linux-2.6-e1000-bad-csum-allow.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52318 22. Sep 13:45 linux-2.6-execshield.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4361 9. Okt 07:18 linux-2.6-firewire-lockdep.patch ....lot`s of patches OpenSuSE_10.3-Kernel-2.6.22.5-31/vanilla: insgesamt 44120 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45119878 22. Sep 16:23 linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 OpenSuSE_10.3-Kernel-2.6.22.5-31/patches: insgesamt 10360 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:07 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:04 patches.apparmor drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:04 patches.arch drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 16. Nov 20:04 patches.drivers drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:05 patches.fixes drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:05 patches.kernel.org -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104687 22. Sep 16:23 supported.conf .....even more patches if something like this doesn`t already exist - would it be useful to start such a project ? regards roland _________________________________________________________________________ In 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114