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| − | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXATzae7eng | + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXATzae7eng Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel - Luis Rodriguez] (54 minutes) |
| − | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZrNd6XkEw | + | ** SUSE Labs Conference, České Budějovice, October 2014 |
| − | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFXQ6zyHCg | + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZrNd6XkEw An Introduction to Coccinelle Bug Finding and Code Evolution for the Linux Kernel - Julia Lawall] (1 hour 58 minutes) |
| + | ** SUSE Labs Conference, České Budějovice, October 2014 | ||
| + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFXQ6zyHCg An Update on the Linux Backports Project - Luis R. Rodriguez, Qualcomm Atheros] (43 minutes) | ||
| + | ** LinuxCon and CloudOpen Conference, New Orleans, October 2013 | ||
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Revision as of 02:15, 25 June 2017
The Backports Project enables old kernels to run the latest drivers.
"Backporting" is the process of making new software run on something old. A version of something new that's been modified to run on something old is called a "backport".
The Backports Project develops tools to automate the backporting process. These tools form the backports suite.
About backports
Backports provide drivers released on newer kernels backported for usage on older kernels. Always use the latest stable release! The project started since 2007 and was originally known as compat-wireless, evolved to compat-drivers and was recently renamed simply to backports. Both daily snapshots based on linux-next, and stable releases based Linux's stable releases are provided. As of the v3.10 based release over 830 device drivers are backported.
Current versions of backports support all mainline kernels starting with version 3.0, for kernel versions older than 3.0 please use backports-3.14, which supports all kernel versions back to 2.6.26.
Documentation
- Linux kernel backports license
- Backports user documentation
- reporting bugs & security vulnerabilities
Papers
Videos
- Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel - Luis Rodriguez (54 minutes)
- SUSE Labs Conference, České Budějovice, October 2014
- An Introduction to Coccinelle Bug Finding and Code Evolution for the Linux Kernel - Julia Lawall (1 hour 58 minutes)
- SUSE Labs Conference, České Budějovice, October 2014
- An Update on the Linux Backports Project - Luis R. Rodriguez, Qualcomm Atheros (43 minutes)
- LinuxCon and CloudOpen Conference, New Orleans, October 2013
Resources
- Releases: (download)
- git repository
- Bugzilla bug tracker (notes)
Community
- Mailing list: (archives) (subscribe) (send)
- IRC: server "irc.freenode.net", channel "#kernel-backports"
- Twitter: @LinuxBackports
- identi.ca: @LinuxBackports
- Meetings
- Contributing
- This text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
