Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
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- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Jul 24, 2007, 00:12 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> > I have sanitized .tgz files that I use to stuff a Git repo with. I > recall that some of them were reconstructed through patching an earlier > or later kernel version because the original ones were corrupted. Some > patches were retrieved from other archival sites, etc. Then the result > was > cross checked with summary lists like this one: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/1684.html > > This was a while ago so I don't remember the exact steps, but that > wasn't always trivial. >
Then there is 0.95a, 0.95c and 0.95c+, which as far as I know only ever existed as 0.95 + patches posted to alt.os.linux.
-hpa