Re: kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:46:54AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > - no alternative kernels or kernel modules allowed in Fedora
> 
> Except for kernel-xen, eh?

Historical accident in the process of being taken out & shot.

It is utterly unmtainainable as a separate package, even before
you consider it is mostly not upstream.

The new Xen kernels will be merged into the real kernel RPM when
our work is complete because that is the only sustainable approach 
in the long term:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0

Regards,
Dan.
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