ramifications of using a stock kernel?

[jludwig]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:27 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> jludwig wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:01 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> >> Apparently the FC kernels are all hacked/patched by Red Hat.  Thus
> >> things like ndiswrapper won't compile against them.  I need two things
> >> that require a stock kernel from kernel.org:  ndiswrapper, and an
> >> unofficial patch that makes my stupid Dell Inspiron 6000's DVD player
> >> use DMA.
> >>
> >> Now my question is what ramifications will there be for using a stock
> >> kernel on an FC3 system.  What will break?
> >>
> >> Oh, I have a second question.  Where can I get the stock FC3 kernel
> >> config
> >> file.  Honestly, the kernel has gotten so big, that I have no idea which
> >> options should be turned off or on.  Its nice to just load the default
> >> FC3 one, but I don't know where it is.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the info.
> >
> > I have done so with the 2.4 kernel.
> >
> > You don't have to loose the Red Hat/Fedora kernel and can set up grub to
> > boot from either(which is the wiswst choice anyways).
>
> Thats what I was planning on doing.  Still, curious about the answer to my
> question though.  Also would like to know where the default FC3 kernel
> config file is.  Thanks.
>
> -- C
If you mean source it is in the /usr/src/2.6****** directory
-- 
John H Ludwig

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