[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed May 10 16:59:27 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 12:53 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Josh Boyer (jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org) said:
> > Ok, I'm going to stumble here a bit because I think we're coming at this
> > from two totally different viewpoints. Bear with me.
> >
> > What products is Fedora supposed to be supporting? If you look at it
> > from existing kernels today, I see: stock, Xen, GFS, cman, dlm and gnbd.
> > Then we're talking about others like OLPC, CCRMA, etc.
>
> There's a difference here. GFS/cman/dlm/gnbd are modules; they (theoretically)
> run on most any kernel.
Then they, theoretically, should be using the kmod stuff Extras came up
with. I'll leave that for another day though :)
>
> Xen, OLPC, and CCRMA are all variants of the kernel, involving
> patching core code and rebuilding the core kernel.
>
> The rest of the points stand, though.
Thanks for the correction.
josh
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