On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I will be working on the GSoC project to prepare compat graphics drivers. > > Looking at the scripts (ckmake and get-compat-kernels) in the compat tree, I > see that they are only handling Ubuntu systems. First of all, should they > really be distro-aware? When I wrote this I posted the patch to lkml [0] for wider review and naturally I got the same reaction from folks. I wrote it originally with the goal to do something distro-agnostic and in fact it is, its just that I haven't figured out a quick way to make this work across the board. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/7/501 More below. > Why not to download the tarballs from kernel.org? > Isn't it a more generic approach? Well kernel.org does not have already built kernels. Ubuntu's PPA kernels *are* vanilla kernels, in fact that is why they were put up, they are guaranteed to be built on vanilla kernels. We couldn't get a more generic approach then. The only thing though is -- the PPA kernels obviously have the kernels integrated on .debs. There are a few options here: 1) If Ubuntu can dpkg -x the kernels for us onto tarballs that'd be swell 2) We could write our own script to do this with C code that does the dpkg -x for us There are ways to do 2) suggested in the thread above. > If this makes sense, I'd like to extend those scripts to handle vanilla > kernels with a cmdline switch which won't care at all about lsb_release. I > will hardcode end-of-life products and parse kernel.org to dynamically > detect new versions, download and extract them under /lib/modules if they > don't exist in there, etc. That'd be amazing! > I'm waiting for your feedback :) Thanks! Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
