Joe Giles wrote:
In short it would not work very well.List,I was wondering. I want to play with building my own Kernel. My question is this. Can I download a Kernel from the source tree at kernel.org, say 2.5.50 (Just released) and use the Red Hat config file from an RPM installed kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.8.0/configs) and compile it? Would this work say if I don't make any changes to the kernel, but load those config settings, build and install?
There are alot of features which have been added to the 2.5 tree. Red Hat has also added alot of features to it's 2.4.18 flavor of kernel which would make it's config incompatible with a stock 2.4.18 kernel from kernel.org
While you could attempt to load it, many options would remain unrecognized (and most likely ignored), while others would remain undefined. You would still need to go through each "section" and confirm the selection.
Your best bet would be to open two windows within the two trees. Run the config for 2.4.18-18.8.0 in one window under that source tree with the Red Hat config loaded, and run the config for 2.5.50 under the second window. Then compare each one and go from there.
-Rick
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