[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 18:57 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> We're going to need to do something similar for One Laptop at some 
> point, but I'm hoping that will just be a kernel variant, not an 
> entirely separate package.  But we'll need some weird stuff in any case. 
>   Compressing memory on the fly, odd memory management and VM stuff, etc.
> 
> This is going to be more and more of a problem, not less.  How do we get 
> bleeding edge features into the kernel without causing pain to our 
> kernel guys?  Can we get the kernel guys to just start using an external 
> git repo for everything to start?  (Are they already doing that now?) 
> Is there a way we can re-think our processes so that we can actually 
> make this easier for our kernel folks instead of making it harder?
> 
> Does the kernel still use pristine source + patches, or are we just 
> using a random git tree?

pristine source + patches.

Rahul