[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

[Jeremy Katz]

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