On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:27:08AM -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote: > As with a current LiveOS installation, the installation media kernel is > the running kernel. Even if the f11 installer already allows you to > trigger a chrooted yum update as part of the install, you won't be > running the updated kernel until after a reboot. Is it the case that the installation kernel is always UP, whereas the real kernel would probably be SMP nowadays? > ... Same as RebootlessInstaller ... until ksplice ... I don't think ksplice changes things -- it seems to only work for very minor kernel patches. For example, any change to the layout of a kernel structure would appear to be incompatible with ksplice. Thus it seems highly unlikely it'll ever work in its current form for arbitrary kernel revisions. <quote> Before you use ksplice-create on a patch, you should confirm that the desired source code change does not make any semantic changes to kernel data structures--that is, changes that would require existing instances of kernel data structures to be transformed (e.g., a patch that adds a field to a global data structure would require the existing data structures to change). If you use Ksplice on a patch that changes data structure semantics, Ksplice will not detect the problem and you could experience kernel problems as a result. </quote> from: http://www.ksplice.com/doc/ksplice-create Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
