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The Unknown Guru
Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 335 Location: Minnesota, U.S.A
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: vanilla sources? |
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I`m gonna build me a 64bit system,I`ve always used vanilla and I noticed Gentoo recommends the Gentoo sources.
So what real problems do I face using vanilla sources?
Or what do I gain from using Gentoo sources. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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The Unknown Guru
Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 335 Location: Minnesota, U.S.A
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:23 am Post subject: |
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I think read that.It doesnt say much. |
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bilateral n00b
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:47 am Post subject: |
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The genpatch list can be found here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/patches-2.6.19-5.htm
I really don't see any x86_64 related patches, or anything that would preclude one from running vanilla on x86_64.
I imagine that the guides recommend gentoo-sources simply because it's written by Gentoo for Gentoo. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: |
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bilateral wrote: | I imagine that the guides recommend gentoo-sources simply because it's written by Gentoo for Gentoo. |
I think so too |
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wuzzerd Guru
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 466 Location: New Mexico
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Give it a shot. You can build a kernel with both and see which works better.
I'm using vanilla right now because of some video driver that wasn't working right in gentoo-sources. Not gentoo's fault, digging into the source tree I found some interesting comments from the driver writer. the same old story: chipset makers don't give us any info on their chips, blah..... |
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bilateral n00b
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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For what it's worth, I'm running a 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel on X86_64. No problems. |
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The Unknown Guru
Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 335 Location: Minnesota, U.S.A
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I appreciate every bit of knowledge you people share with me. |
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Omega21 l33t
Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 788 Location: Canada (brrr. Its cold up here)
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: |
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I would just use the Gentoo-sources. Or the mm-sources if your crazy like that. _________________ iMac G4 1GHz :: q6600 //2x 500GB//2GB RAM//8600GT//Gentoo :: MacBook Pro//2.53GHz |
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i92guboj Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 10315 Location: Córdoba (Spain)
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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I preffer not to use patches others than those I need.
So, I just use vanilla and patch myself when needed. No issues here with either x86 or amd64. It just works. |
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spb Retired Dev
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 2135 Location: Cambridge, UK
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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My amd64 laptop runs on upstream git snapshots. The gentoo sources are very unlikely to have any patches that you need to get things running -- that will happen in arch-specific kernel trees, but not in the generic Gentoo one. |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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I love the Gentoo spirit, even for the kernel, we have always the choice to choose want we want to install |
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Omega21 l33t
Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 788 Location: Canada (brrr. Its cold up here)
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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d2_racing wrote: | I love the Gentoo spirit, even for the kernel, we have always the choice to choose want we want to install |
++ _________________ iMac G4 1GHz :: q6600 //2x 500GB//2GB RAM//8600GT//Gentoo :: MacBook Pro//2.53GHz |
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