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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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02  9:50 UTC|newest]

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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