[Ilugc] Re: Canonical Not Great Contributor
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan SR)
- Date: Mon Sep 29 11:54:20 2008
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
the question is this:
1. Ubuntu has patched the kernel, the patch is available in their
repositories
under GPL and there is nothing to prevent the maintainers of the kernel from
pulling in the patches
[From Ubuntu Forums, on a similar question about finding Ubuntu specific
patches]
You can indeed get the kernel patches, by grabbing the source to the
linux kernel. So if you want the kernel source to a 686-based kernel,
you would type:
sudo apt-get source linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-686.
This Downloads the source, configs, and patches. The patches can be
found in the debian/patches subdirectory of the kernel source directory
that gets created upon download.
or
2. Ubuntu has patched the kernel and has not made the patches available
Indeed all Ubuntu specific patches are available with the Ubuntu Kernel
source in the repository and apt-get'able.
3. Ubuntu has only made around a 100 patches to the kernel which they have
contributed upstream.
The number of patches contributed by Ubuntu Kernel Team to upstream is
less and it has been accepted. I also heard from one of the Ubuntu
Kernel guys that the patches we do are very less and what Ubuntu Kernel
differs from the Linus' is the availability of binary drivers not found
in the latter (obviously) in the restricted section. I do not have too
much gyan on this, but happen to read this in the response mdz made for
Greg's presentation.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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