From: Michel Merinoff <mike_merinov@yahoo.co.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:48:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4549BEDB.2080804@yahoo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610311014.57356.bss03@volumehost.net>
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:59, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote
> about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?':
>
>> I think gcc version should not have impact on X because NVidia's drivers
>> are binary, closed source - they don't care about the gcc used to
>> compile the kernel or the X server. Actually I think the emerge only
>> installs those drivers and checks for common configuration errors.
>>
>
> 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?
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 14:10 [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Sean
2006-10-31 14:16 ` Piotr Pruszczak
2006-10-31 14:25 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 14:37 ` Piotr Pruszczak
2006-10-31 15:59 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 16:14 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-11-02 9:48 ` Michel Merinoff [this message]
2006-11-02 10:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-31 16:19 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-10-31 16:49 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 17:04 ` Sean
2006-10-31 17:18 ` Mathieu Seigneurin
2006-10-31 17:31 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 18:14 ` Sean
2006-10-31 18:21 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 18:39 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 18:48 ` Sean
2006-10-31 19:11 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 19:38 ` sean
2006-10-31 21:57 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-11-01 19:24 ` sean
2006-11-01 20:39 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-11-01 9:05 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-11-01 12:47 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-11-01 14:32 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-11-01 16:55 ` Florian D.
2006-11-01 16:37 ` Jesús Guerrero
2006-11-01 19:14 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-11-01 17:06 ` [gentoo-amd64] [OT] " Daniel Iliev
2006-11-01 19:01 ` [gentoo-amd64] [OOT] Apologies Pawel Kraszewski
2006-11-01 20:02 ` [gentoo-amd64] [OOT] [SOLVED] Apologies Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 14:22 ` [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Sebastian Redl
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