[gentoo-user] OT - Question about kernels and kernel patches

[gentoo-user] OT - Question about kernels and kernel patches

[Michael Sullivan]

I own a copy of Win4Lin 5.0 for Windows 9x.  I'd like to use it, but the
problem is that the newest patch for SMP kernels that they offer is
2.6.11.  I'm running 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 .  I like the newer kernels
because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not
sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage.  Not to mention
I like not having to worry about alsa-driver (in the 2.6.18 kernel,
kernel support for my sound card works; it didn't prior to 2.6.18.)  I
have the kernel source tarball for the 2.6.11 kernel, and I have the
patches for Win4Lin for that kernel.  Is it possible for me to unpack
the kernel source, apply the Win4Lin patches, and then patch that kernel
all the way up to 2.6.18?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches

[Steve Dibb]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I like the newer kernels
> because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not
> sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage.

They are still in there, and I doubt we'll be removing them anytime soon.

ivtv v0.4.5 through 0.4.9 will work with kernels <=2.6.15.

http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download

Steve
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about kernels and kernel patches

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:21 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>  Is it possible for me to unpack
> the kernel source, apply the Win4Lin patches, and then patch that kernel
> all the way up to 2.6.18?

you could try applying the patches straight to the 2.6.18 kernel.
Depending on how much of the relevant files have changed, the patches
_may_ still work.  patch will tell you whether it fails or not.
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