F7 redux, and the road to F8.

[dragoran]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On the subject of backporting, due to us only having 5 months
> for F8, and a lot of that time being 'conference season', I expect
> upstream to slow down a little, so we're probably looking at
> 2.6.23 for F8.  I'm guessing .24 will begin way too late in our cycle,
> so we'll have quite a bit of backporting to be doing for the final
> month or so before release.
>
> comments?
>
>   
this would mean that we will might end up having cfs as the scheduler 
and tickless  x86_64.
I mostly using x86_64 ... where there any major problems (exept the dell 
one) related to tickless kernels in the F7 cycle?