In the install-guide, the following kernelsources are mentioned: xfs-sources vanilla-sources gentoo-sources openmosix-sources usermode-sources But... we provide lots of kernelsources: aa-sources gaming-sources mm-sources selinux-sources acpi-sources gentoo-sources mosix-sources sparc-sources ac-sources gs-sources openmosix-sources usermode-sources alpha-sources hppa-sources ppc-sources vanilla-sources arm-headers ksymoops ppc-sources-benh win4lin-sources arm-sources linux-headers ppc-sources-crypto wolk-sources ck-sources lolo-sources ppc-sources-dev xfs-sources crypto-sources mips-sources redhat-sources development-sources mjc-sources rsbac-sources Proposal: - Or we mention each kernelsource which is considered stable - Or we mention that there are a lots of available flavors, and that an ~$ ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/ will list all available ones, and that "emerge -s <flavor>" will give an explanation about the kernelsource. - Or we mention the most used (i guess "vanilla-sources", "gentoo-sources" and "xfs-sources") and tell that there are lots of others (see previous proposal). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Most of the sources are for developers or for for experiments, and the users might get confused with all the sources.. we'd better mix the 2. and 3. together that -- we hava a number of sources available.. you can find them in this way.. blah.. however, it is recommended to use this, this, or that.. -- cheers.. ajs.
Actaully, even though some of these are dev sources, they should still be documented. lolo is working on a guide right now, so I am going to CC him on this and see if he can add some more info. //zhen
Any more news on this?
I've received lolo's doc; I'll edit and make it in XML format.
You can find the proposed guide on http://cvs.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo-kernel.html. If accepted by reviewing-committee, I'll add it to the CVS.
I'm putting this on hold, I need to add some more information to the doc. Suggested deadline: end of this week...
Committed into CVS.