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Main Page From Jump to: navigation , search 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 for Linux drivers. These tools form the backports suite. History The Backports Project started in 2007 as compat-wireless . It was renamed to compat-drivers as the project’s scope broadened beyond just wireless network drivers. Nowadays, the project is known simply as backports . As of the 3.10-based release, over 830 device drivers had been backported. Recent versions of backports support mainline kernels back to version 3.0. The older backports-3.14 supports all kernel versions back to version 2.6.26. Resources Package releases: (download) Daily snapshots: (linux-next) (linux-stable) git repository Bugzilla bug tracker: (notes) Documentation Linux kernel backports license User documentation Overview Package release mode Kernel integration mode Developer documentation Reporting bugs & security vulnerabilities Papers Increasing Automation in the Backporting of Linux Drivers Using Coccinelle - Luis R. Rodriguez, Julia Lawall (12 pages) 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 Community Mailing list : (archives) (subscribe) (send) IRC : server "irc.libera.chat:6697" (TLS), channel "#kernel-backports" Twitter : @LinuxBackports identi.ca : @LinuxBackports Meetings Contributing - This text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . Retrieved from " https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=5320 " Views Page Discussion View source History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Recent changes Random page Search Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link This page was last modified on 27 May 2021, at 20:01. Privacy policy About...