From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [69.77.167.62] (helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko0bb-0005Fa-3x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:51:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30022E0058; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D0CE0058 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so247525wff.10 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=MN71GtlmbPjhcJm9xBBCe4gleOR1wDdYvsB1JafjQ0Q=; b=CI2hKWs5YqB2MCfjmXUjJdhp4fwAdVRrbsZW4MLIOzfKU9/8A+T23VttQwnyoIGVaV UDTGhah4UFqrjs4Ra+l4rgSHq8wLaAJifk+rjbFojpNPX3U9gvaRJpbh3BWn5Af4ARLS J/IrAMRUqxHOV0tvCm8w/MruPRiWOv1DsR7yQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=I4E09uPOtQ9apVRPQXH32rKViOy1jPqgeCkEiRCq7I3h9ERqXkufGwF/AzQqwCAaqg O6vSGxkQet7I7BoAPZkP7rcBMcgbW8KFRtHkyk5AjeXfLc0nr5kNe7UM2qaKorgTfM/9 LPZxFECfaMIsI9/5inPdLaFAE5J107ZxcJ3aE= Received: by 10.114.193.1 with SMTP id q1mr691296waf.70.1223578278732; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (dsl-243-231-180.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.231.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm354561yxs.5.2008.10.09.11.51.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for an unbooted kernel Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:52:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20081009174837.GA6279@solfire> <20081009182520.GA6643@solfire> <48EE4F71.3000707@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <48EE4F71.3000707@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810092052.29015.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e18f511f-ec61-4300-b499-db21adb6b5bc X-Archives-Hash: 26832437b13749b967b5d690bb799731 On Thursday 09 October 2008 20:37:37 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > meino.cramer@gmx.de schrieb am 09.10.2008 20:25: > > thanks for help. But let me come back to my initial question: > > > > Is it possible to compile the source of the nvidia driver interface > > for a currently compiled but unbooted kernel ? > > Does the nvidia-driver really need the kernel for which it will be > compiled running? No. Drivers are compiled for the current *configured* kernel. The running kernel is utterly and completely irrelevant. The compiler wants linux-headers, a configured set of kernel sources and other bits. Running kernel does not feature in this. The *configured* kernel is defined by whatever /usr/src/linux is pointing to. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com