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| author | Mcgrof <anonymous.contributor@example.org> | 2014-11-17 18:30:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-10-04 15:47:32 -0400 |
| commit | f72e40422c0ef8702483cadcb497ec2785e2a7d3 (patch) | |
| tree | da9799e141cf5da35ce40391dce99e46c9dca237 | |
| parent | 4f7e55e1993abc48169c36d8ac1f2e9ab6a881cf (diff) | |
| download | backports-f72e40422c0ef8702483cadcb497ec2785e2a7d3.tar.gz | |
Split documentation into two sections by mechanism supported
| -rw-r--r-- | wiki/Documentation.mediawiki | 7 |
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diff --git a/wiki/Documentation.mediawiki b/wiki/Documentation.mediawiki index f1441e0..af0ee89 100644 --- a/wiki/Documentation.mediawiki +++ b/wiki/Documentation.mediawiki @@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ title: Documentation --- -The Linux kernel backports project aims at backporting Linux '''upstream''' device drivers for usage on older kernels. The point of the project is to provide a central mechanism for backporting device drivers for ''any'' subsystem and enable ''both'' users '''and''' developers to always focus on upstream Linux kernel development. The backports project shall '''never''' include proprietary drivers and by design does not allow usage of itself with proprietary drivers. Every backports release has been test compiled ''for usage'' against all supported kernels, the oldest one is (currently) 3.0. Note that Linux kernel releases can become deprecated. You are encouraged to use supported stable kernels as listed on [http://kernel.org kernel.org]. +The Linux kernel backports project aims at backporting Linux '''upstream''' device drivers for usage on older kernels. Support is provided for using backports in '''package''' form, where a tarball is provided with subsystems/drivers from future kernels, and also with direct kernel integration support, where you can use backports to directly '''integrate''' subsystems/drivers from future kernels on older kernel trees. The point of the project is to provide a central mechanism for backporting device drivers for ''any'' subsystem and enable ''both'' users '''and''' developers to always focus on upstream Linux kernel development. The backports project shall '''never''' include proprietary drivers and by design does not allow usage of itself with proprietary drivers. Every backports release has been test compiled ''for usage'' against all supported kernels, the oldest one is (currently) 3.0. Note that Linux kernel releases can become deprecated. You are encouraged to use supported stable kernels as listed on [http://kernel.org kernel.org]. + +<h2>Backport uses</h2> + + * Backports package releases + * Backport kernel integration <h2>Release types</h2> |