What is stock kernel?

kskkumar · 11-25-2005, 09:46 AM

Once i went through a magazine, i came across stock kernel. What is stock kernel? What types of kernels are available in market? How do we identify stock kernel from other kernels?

GrueMaster · 11-25-2005, 10:11 AM

"Stock kernel" refers to the base kernel releases from Linus, available at kernel.org. Most distributions will use this kernel as a base, and add their own patches & drivers on top (like ndiswrapper, supermount, etc). Eventually, some of these vender patches will make it to the base kernel, but some don't due to licensing conflicts (nvidia driver).

chipotphe · 09-10-2008, 02:38 PM

What is the difference between a stock kernel and a vanilla kernel ?

chipotphe

j.todd · 09-10-2008, 06:52 PM

Nothing .

jay73 · 09-10-2008, 10:25 PM

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Nothing .

Are you sure? I think that the stock kernel is the one that distros provide out of the box. This is already a tweaked version of the kernel released by kernel.org. If users wish to do so, they can compile a vanilla kernel or recompile the stock kernel into a custom kernel.

chipotphe · 09-13-2008, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by j.todd

Nothing .

I am not sure neither.

let have a look at : http://www.andrewd18.com/guidetolinu...php?chapter=16

Is this right ?

jay73 · 09-13-2008, 04:46 AM

Makes sense to me.