[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

Matt Domsch matt at domsch.com
Tue May 9 09:00:43 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:01:23AM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Here's the fallback position: Fernando continues to maintain the CCRMA
> kernel in his own yum repo, and *everything else* gets pulled into Extras
> over time.  (To the best of my knowledge, none of the CCRMA apps *require*
> the CCRMA kernel -- it's just a huge help for getting any actual work
> done.)  That way, at least Fernando has a mechanism to spread the workload
> for maintaining CCRMA among several assistants, and can spend most of his
> time maintaining his own kernel as he sees fit.

+1

> Meanwhile, we wait for the day when Ingo's realtime patches make it into 
> the mainline kernels.  When that day comes, the CCRMA project goes away.

or perhaps it morphs into a Multimedia or Audio SIG?  That could
happen even before the kernel parts are native.

-Matt




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