Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Sun Apr 29 21:55:15 UTC 2007
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:57:49 -0400
Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> We could do a rebase to .21 this week, and push that out to testing,
> and if anything critical turns up before that becomes deemed stable,
> we could push a branched build off of .20 directly to updates.
>
> Most of the scary stuff (new libata pata drivers etc), we'd keep off,
> so things shouldn't be too bad. The timer changes for tickless are
> probably the only remaining scary thing. For that we have a few
> choices.
> - Leave NO_HZ off.
> Feature parity with FC6, though the code has still changed, and
> may still find regressions. Probably the safest option.
> - Turn NO_HZ on.
> Early preview of F7 features, saves power yadayada, may find new
> bugs. (Gets us that nice fuzzy 'f6 bugs are f7 bugs' bonus though)
> - Turn NO_HZ on, but do the same as we did for MSI (enable the config,
> but only if you boot with a command line option).
> Might find us even more regressions, that aren't even relevant
> upstream.
What about MSI? On or off?
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