On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:30:43AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:22, Tim Burke wrote: > > I don't think we are prepared to *responsibly* deliver the realtime > > kernel in FC7. Consider that there have been infinite threads on the > > trauma Xen has introduced. Such as a zillion patches, often out of > > sync, etc. Well, currently the realtime kernel is also a zillion > > patches - many of which conflict with Xen. > > > > afaik, we were not intending to have someone on the realtime space who > > is constantly keeping up to date with the Fedora rebasing etc (like Juan > > does for Xen). Sure, Ingo frequently rebases to upstream, but not > > against the Fedora variants. I just don't want realtime to slow down > > Fedora. Now, when enough of realtime is in upstream that its a > > manageable patch set, thats a different story... but that may be FC8. > > > > Things like Xen which are a major integration challenge make much more > > sense in Fedora. There are installer, system startup, networking, yada, > > yada to sort out. In contrast, realtime is primarily "just a kernel". > > So the same integration challenges do not exist (knock on wood). There > > is already an existing upstream community around the -rt patchset. > > Based on this, we may not want to fragment the audience. > > > > Mind you, I'm not trying to holdback RT from Fedora. I just don't think > > its mainstreamed enough to fit responsibly. I welcome opinions though. > > I honestly think that we can no longer deliver _anything_ significant in the > Fedora kernels that isn't upstream. Right. Remember that original Fedora goal "Be close to upstream" ? We need to get back on track to that ASAP, not deviate further away. And shovelling things into separate RPMs is not the right answer to the current problem Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
