Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.21-1.3255.fc7
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sat Jul 7 01:16:53 UTC 2007
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:09:57PM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Dave Jones wrote:
> > .21 still has quite a few rough edges. The current plan is to move
> > straight to .22 for FC6 shortly after it's release.
> > I'm assuming you're after the tickless work? Still unsure whether to
> > enable that by default as an FC6 update. Perhaps we'll try it for
> > the first test update, see what the fallout is like, and if it looks
> > scary, compile it in, but off-by-default.
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> Ok that is good to know. Just as long as how to enable the tickless
> option is documented.
>
> So what would be the expected fallout from that option being enabled?
> Are there things that you know that would definitely break?
Timers are pretty fundamental to a working kernel, so it could manifest
itself in numerous ways. Right down to 'doesnt boot'.
Dave
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