Samu asked how to manage HIPL kernel patches on Debian/Ubuntu. Currently I
am using the following method:
aptitude install kernel-package
less /usr/share/kernel-packaged/doc/README
aptitude install ipw2200-source
aptitude install ieee80211-source
aptitude install alsa-source
aptitude install nvidia_etc_source
cd /usr/src
(extract ipw, ieee, alsa and nvidia-etc packages)
cd /usr/src/linux-with-hipl-patches
make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image modules_image
dpkg -i ../kernel-image-xx
dpkg -i ../alsa-modules-xx
dpkg -i ../etc.
<check that the modules are loaded in /etc/modules>
reboot
I am using the the previous method on my workstation, IBM laptop
and virtual machines. It is very convinient because the external drivers
are semi-automatically included when I upgrade kernels.
P.S. Building a separate ALSA module requires that ALSA is *not* built in
to the core kernel.
-- Miika Komu miika@xxxxxx http://www.iki.fi/miika/
