Upgrading to catalyst-8.7

9 August, 2008 – 16:45

Choosing to run the latest kernel means choosing to deal with errors. Luckily, my mileage with 2.6.27-rc2 has been pretty good. Here are a few pointers (and an experimental patch) to use when setting up catalyst-8.7 kernel 2.6.27-rc2.
I created the patch from various components incl.:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485793
Also, note that I do not have any working [...]

By antonyjepson | Posted in Device Driver, Operating System | Tags: , | Comments (3)

Upgrading to linux-2.6.27-rc2

8 August, 2008 – 16:24

git makes it incredibly easy to upgrade my kernel to the latest (but not necessarily greatest). I’ve decided that I’ll stick to tagged releases instead of the latest git pull.
I’ll skip the prologue and just show the commands.
Download the latest commits.
linux-git %   git pull  (Note:  Make sure you are in the master branch [...]

By antonyjepson | Posted in Application, Kernel, Operating System, Version Control | Tags: , , | Comments (1)