Kernel with kernel-debug option

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 13:15:44 UTC 2007


On 1/19/07, Mark Knoop <mpknoop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/01/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/19/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:02 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > > > "This update also introduces 'kernel-debug', a variant with
> > > > additional debugging options enabled. These kernels may run
> > > > with lower performance and increased memory overhead than
> > > > the non-debug variants."
> > > >
> > > > My question is: is it possible to get this kernel without this
> > > > kernel-debug option?
> > >
> > > I thought it was an *extra* kernel, that you'd install if you wanted to,
> > > instead.  Like you had kernel, kernel-smp, and so on...
> >
> > Ah! OK, thanks, I misunderstood the message, so my next question is ,
> > when I update to this kernel, which one will be used by default? the
> > normal one or the kernel-debug version?
>
> They are different packages:
>
> $ yum list kernel\*
> Available Packages
> kernel.i686                              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel.i586                              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel-PAE-debug.i686                    2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel-PAE-debug-devel.i686              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel-debug.i686                        2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel-debug-devel.i686                  2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
> kernel-devel.i686                        2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
>
> Just install the kernel package - this will be the default update.

Using default updates results in the kernel-debug default. Now I get a
PCI warning message at boot time and a message at the bottom of the
screen "Kernel alive" that I didn't see before.

Cheers
>
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