FC5 kernel updates
Rodd Clarkson
rodd at clarkson.id.au
Tue Apr 18 02:02:50 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:46 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:34 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:28 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >
> > > While we're discussing kernel upgrades, any likely hood of seeing 2.17.x
> > > based kernels for FC5 at some time in the future?
> > >
> > > Or, how well should rawhide 2.17.x kernels work with FC5?
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, still seeing/using 2.6.16 kernels in rawhide.
>
> 2.6.17 hasn't been released yet. It's still in release candidate mode.
>
> Rawhide kernels aren't really 2.6.16 though. They're 2.6.16 + patches
> from the 2.6.17 git tree. See today's rawhide report:
>
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2134_FC6
> ------------------------
> * Sun Apr 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Big rebase to 2.6.17-rc1-git12
>
> The reason the RPM version is still .16 is because you still want to be
> able to upgrade to 2.6.17 when it comes out.
All, good, but will/should FC5 work with the current rawhide kernels?
R.
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