[PLUG] Redhat ES 4

dan at fiddlers-green.info dan at fiddlers-green.info
Mon Oct 31 19:24:58 UTC 2005


Quoting "Jason R. Martin" <nsxfreddy at gmail.com>:

> On 10/28/05, Steve D... <blitters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/28/05, dan at fiddlers-green.info <dan at fiddlers-green.info> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone encountered a make problem when building a
> kernel with
> > > redhat ES/FC4, and if they have gotten around it?
> > >
> > > I saw some references in message boards saying that redhat has broken the
> kernel
> > > source tree to keep you from recompiling the kernel. Has anyone found a
> way
> > > around this?
> >
> >   It's not really broken.  I just won't compile.  :-)
> >
> >   My understanding is that the RedHat licenced offerings include
> > non-GPL secret-sauce in the kernel.  The non-GPL files are removed
> > when the GPL portions of the source are posted on their web site.  The
> > GPL code won't compile without the non-GPL code or extensive code
> > cleanup.
> 
> That is completely bogus.  I have successfully recompiled the RHEL4
> (AS) kernel from the .src.rpm in the past by extracting it with
> rpmbuild and then building it just like any other kernel.  To suggest
> that they have non-GPL code in their kernels is just FUD.  Take a look
> around, you'll notice the RedHat kernel engineers are the most
> violently anti-binary kernel module people (such as nVidia).
> 
> Stop spreading this crap.
> 
> Jason
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Jason,

Sorry, I wasn't looking to spread FUD. But I cannot compile my kernel (unbder
/usr/src/linux) on RH ES 4 EL WITH the kernel dev package installed (That
replaced .srcs.rpm from rh 3). I simply want to compile the kernel with AGPGART
as a module instead of having it built-in. I can't even do a make modules
without an error. I know there is some other way to build modules, since back
in August I was able to do it. Of course I didn't write it down...

I can also tell you, as I work for a major software vendor who has
proprietary (non-GPL) source in the rh kernel, that redhat does have some
proprietary source in their kernel. I'm not necessarily sure that's the resaon
you can't just go into the kernel tree and run make though. I imagine it has
more to do with not wanting to support every homegrown kernel between here and
Gentoo. But since this is my laptop, I'm not worried about being supported.

After further investigatiopn it appears that I may need a kernel tree under
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD, which is where I probably did the make modules. So, like
Steve said, it's not broken...

Dan H.

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