On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 18:57 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > We're going to need to do something similar for One Laptop at some > point, but I'm hoping that will just be a kernel variant, not an > entirely separate package. But we'll need some weird stuff in any case. > Compressing memory on the fly, odd memory management and VM stuff, etc. > > This is going to be more and more of a problem, not less. How do we get > bleeding edge features into the kernel without causing pain to our > kernel guys? Can we get the kernel guys to just start using an external > git repo for everything to start? (Are they already doing that now?) > Is there a way we can re-think our processes so that we can actually > make this easier for our kernel folks instead of making it harder? > > Does the kernel still use pristine source + patches, or are we just > using a random git tree? pristine source + patches. Rahul
