> Hi
> I just installed RedHat 7.2 with the 2.4.7 kernel. Low and behold, when
> I tried to install the latest kernels, I see that there are many options
> in the RedHat 2.4.7 kernel that are not even in the 2.4.13 kernel! How
> does this work?
patches, patches more patches...
> Also, I see many (EXPERIMENTAL) greyd-out areas in the
> kernel as well as other greyd out areas which are not experimental, yet
> won't allow me to select it ( reiserfs for example ) .
> How can I get reiserfs to compile into the kernel, and to satsify my
> curiosity, how do you enable the experimental options?
in the code maturity level options select:
Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
> Does it mean that if there is a fairly large difference between the
> RedHat 2.4.7 and the stock one from kernel.org, that they are not really
> the same?
much of what's different are drivers that either haven't yet been accepted
into the tree or won't be accepted for various reasons...
> ie, does anyone foresee any future problems with redhat adding
> all these extra features to their kernel and people who would like to
> upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install,
> yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...)
you can add ext3 by either grabbing the andrew morton et al patch from...
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/
or by appling one of the ac series patches from alan.
I suspect when you see a new development tree be created (shortly) that a
significant amount of code will migrate into that.
joelja
> Thanks
>
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