compiling and booting 2.6.34

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Lucio Crusca wrote:

> Out of curiosity: do the mainline kernels include significant
> patches to the corresponding vanilla ones? In other words, are
> Ubuntu patches cosmetic ones (or performance centric) or do they add
> some hardware compatibility otherwise not obtainable with unpoatched
> vanilla sources? Yet another rewording of the question: do I have
> any chance to compile a vanilla kernel and see it boot without
> applying Ubuntu patches?

  FWIW, i just compiled an up-to-date "git pull" of the mainline
kernel (so that would make it 2.6.34 plus whatever's been dumped on in
the subsequent merge window), based the configuration on the current
.config file, built, installed and rebooted.  seems to be running fine
on my updated 10.04 system:

$ uname -a
Linux lynx 2.6.34 #1 SMP Fri May 28 17:41:42 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$

  at a glance, my desktop is running, and wireless is working, which
are the two things that i would care about first.  so, sure, running a
stock kernel seems eminently doable, at least as a starting point.

rday

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