Differences between the kernel source in FC2 and the kernel source obtained from kernel.org?

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 01:22:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:46:47 -0800 (PST), Park Lee
<parklee_sel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Is there any difference between the kernel source in
> FC2(version 2.6.5-1.358) and the kernel source
> (version 2.6.5)obtained from kernel.org?
>   Can I also download a 2.6.5 (or higher)version
> kernel source from kernel.org to replace the FC2's
> origianl kernel source and compile the new downloaded
> kernel source to yield a vmlinuz and run it as FC2's
> kernel without any conflict?
>   Thank you.

There are probably several 'differences' and patches between the 2
kernels. THe best way to look at it would be to get the kernel.src.rpm
from Fedora tree and then do a rpm -ivh of it. Look at the spec file
and the patches to see what the differences are.

I have not heard of any problems with having straight source running
on a machine as long as some fundamental things are turned on in the
new kernel as they are in the Fedora version. I am guessing Selinux
would be one, but there are probably other.s

> 
> =====
> Best Regards,
> Park Lee
> 
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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