F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 - amazing statements

[David Boles]

on 8/3/2007 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 16:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I don't know of any Fedora application that works 
>> with Fedora kernel 2.6.x.y-n
>> that does not work equally well with vanilla kernel 2.6.x.y .
>> That is what I mean by orthogonal.
> We just had a case where the installed version of udev did not work with
> one of the kernel versions on some machines.
>> I asked you for an example of this.
>> You didn't given one, so I assume you cannot find one.
> 
>>> Currently the kernels are distributed compiled for several cpu
>> versions
>>> so that is not something that needs to be done by the user.
>> Not true.
>> None of the distribution kernels I have seen
>> use CPU choices that accurately match any of the machines I have.
> What do you make of the fact that the 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 kernel came in two
> rpms. One called 2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i586 and the other called 
> 
> 2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i686?

He is referring to the kernels in Fedora 8. There are only i686 kernels.

-- 

  David

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