From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:36:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707232035510.6355@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <46A54406.8020605@zytor.com>

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Indeed, already got those.


Nicolas