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In order to backport the Linux kernel we must divide and conquer the tasks at hand.
This is now deprecated use hacking on backports.
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Backport components
There are currently two components to the backports effort.
compat
compat is a shared module / headers that implements newer features for usage on older kernels.
* git://github.com/mcgrof/compat.git compat documentation
compat-drivers
compat-drivers is the framework that pulls code from the Linux kernel, adds the compat module and backports features that compat could not backport within its module / headers.
* git://github.com/mcgrof/compat-drivers.git compat-drivers documentation
Getting all required code
To be able to make releases and test building releases however you need quite a bit more code. The setup is simplified with scripts from the compat.git tree. To set your system up for the first time you can run:
wget https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/raw/master/bin/get-compat-trees wget https://github.com/mcgrof/compat/raw/master/bin/get-compat-kernels chmod 755 get-compat-trees get-compat-kernels ./get-compat-trees ./get-compat-kernels
Hacking on the project
You should realize that there are a few components to the project and that although they are used together each one can be considered independent of each other.
* Read the hacking on compat documentation. * Read the hacking on compat-drivers documentation.
TODO list
Read the hacking TODO for a list of wish items we should be working towards.