[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:30 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 04:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's what's in CVS.  I was talking with Jeremy about this on IRC this
> past weekend.  There are git trees inside of RH that the kernel
> developers use, and patches are generated from that.  Maybe not everyone
> uses them, but the git trees do exist.

I might have misspoke on that.  Seems I misunderstood our IRC
conversation.  Or I'm just confused.

josh