On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:44 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:53:20PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then > > shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into > > Fedora? If not, why not? > > I'd like to avoid kernel proliferation any more than we already have > it. The shrinking of i386 and x86_64 back from both UP and SMP to > just a single SMP-aware kernel was goodness Indeed. I have a dream of someday having a single kernel per arch... it would make so many things work so much better for users. > Given that Fedora != mainline, the non-mainline features such as PAE > and Xen so far have been handled in separate kernels. Continuing to > split out such features into separate kernels isn't scalable though... Note that the PAE stuff is upstream -- kernel-PAE is a kernel with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64, not the 4/4 split stuff Jeremy
