[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 8 23:05:04 UTC 2006
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
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