Using a custom DSDT with Fedora
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 12:05:15 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 08:04 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Is it really that hard to:
>
> 1) grab the desired kernel .src.rpm, install it as normal
> 2) cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> 3) Add your patch to the specfile, copy it to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> 5) rpmbuild -ba --target i386 <kernel.spec>
>
> ? or am I missing some steps/complications?
Wait a couple of weeks, yum -y update, and a new kernel gets installed,
and the DSDT isn't loaded anymore. Alternative is to exclude kernel from
yum updates, and then you don't get bug or security fixes.
Richard.
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