From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfZyB-00039w-QZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:38:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA2AarIO002266; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:36:53 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA2AaqeI032204 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:36:53 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BEE5FDAB for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:36:50 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Message-ID: <20061102103650.2fd4eff3@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4549BEDB.2080804@yahoo.co.uk> References: <4547594F.1070406@verizon.net> <45475F98.1070603@pro.onet.pl> <454772F9.5030807@ilievnet.com> <200610311014.57356.bss03@volumehost.net> <4549BEDB.2080804@yahoo.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.6 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_wDESH7mD.KJwTymGR8Kiv3G; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: b5aae822-a6f8-407d-8189-73d09d27355f X-Archives-Hash: 67ed060c8679c870b317b5c3fc1abb84 --Sig_wDESH7mD.KJwTymGR8Kiv3G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:48:11 +0300, Michel Merinoff wrote: > > No, there's no way to make a pure binary driver that works on all > > systems, because symbols in the kernel will be at different locations > > depending on options it was compiled with. > Should this mean, that you have to recompile all the drivers already > installed after recompiling the kernel with a new feature added or after > upgrading it up to newer version? Yes, if you are referring to kernel modules. But most are part of the kernel tree anyway, so they are updated along with the kernel. The only ones you need to worry about are things like the Nvidia drivers, some wireless card drivers and so forth. sys-kernel/module-rebuild can do this for you, just run it after a kernel compile. --=20 Neil Bothwick I am Ken Dodd of the Borg... What a fine day to be assimilated missus!! --Sig_wDESH7mD.KJwTymGR8Kiv3G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFScpCum4al0N1GQMRAhK6AKC3e6iFFVH5WCkAuWokvdKV7kAIhwCfQfbC yllfXC5W8Zcf5YrNNlNiuY8= =eBc4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_wDESH7mD.KJwTymGR8Kiv3G-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list