[RFC] Moving Intrepid to 2.6.27 kernel

[Ben Collins]

Alberto Milone wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 09:52 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> Hi Ben:
>>
>> Not to necessarily be a deterrant from moving to 2.6.27, but do the
>> closed drivers available in Ubuntu, the Broadcom, the NVIDIAs, and the
>> Fglrx compile nicely against 2.6.27, or will some more modifications
>> be needed there too?
>>
>> Regards
>>
> As far as I'm concerned I see no problems here, at least with NVIDIA. I
> haven't tried the new kernel yet however I wrote some patches to ensure
> compatibility of the NVIDIA driver with kernel 2.6.26 and I think I can
> do it for 2.6.27 too.
> 

There's rc3 based kernels here with headers:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/pub/next/v2.6.27-rc3/

Give it a try and let me know how well it works out?