[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon May 8 20:48:02 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:44 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:53:20PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then
> > shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into
> > Fedora? If not, why not?
>
> I'd like to avoid kernel proliferation any more than we already have
> it. The shrinking of i386 and x86_64 back from both UP and SMP to
> just a single SMP-aware kernel was goodness
Indeed. I have a dream of someday having a single kernel per arch...
it would make so many things work so much better for users.
> Given that Fedora != mainline, the non-mainline features such as PAE
> and Xen so far have been handled in separate kernels. Continuing to
> split out such features into separate kernels isn't scalable though...
Note that the PAE stuff is upstream -- kernel-PAE is a kernel with
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64, not the 4/4 split stuff
Jeremy
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