[Gllug] Major corporal damage to the Kernel?

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:29, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

> The only headaches you're likely to get with a heavily patched kernel is if
> you need drivers that aren't currently in the kernel sources. Such as
> NVidia. They might have trouble compiling if something in the modified
> sources clashes, but, as it's read hat, most of the GOOD vendors will just
> release a pre-compiled RPM for redhat anyway.
> 
> If you do have a bit of hardware with a driver that won't compile, all it
> means is downgrading to a previous kernel (or upgrading to the latest stock
> one, depending on what the docs say that came with the driver).

Call me a cynic, but you can just fix that problem by not buying
hardware from vendors who won't release specs. It's not hard....

Mike.



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