On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:33:12PM -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:20 +0200, Roland Käser wrote: > > Hello > > > > > this would increase the complexity of kernel > > > building and maintenance for FC4 and beyond. > > > > Why? Its just an other rpm packages which provides the kernel 2.4.29. > > The xen distro contributes the packages for it. Just a new spec and a > > new srpm. Should take (I'm not yet a specialist for building rpms for > > xen) around a half hour to create the package. > > Just another rpm? You can't be serious. We're talking another > kernel, here. Let's ask Dave Jones (whom I believe is the current > kernel rpm maintainer) how much he fancies maintaining multiple kernel > rpms per release of Fedora Core and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is > different than upstream and that has to be kept up to date security- > wise. I don't see any particular benefit offered by running a 2.4 kernel in a 2.6 Xen host. If 2.6 doesn't do something for you that 2.4 does, that needs fixing. 2.4 is a dead end wrt new development. I'm surprised to hear the Xen folks still support it. I have no plans whatsoever to build another 2.4 kernel for Fedora, so unless some loony decides to take this on as a fedora-extras project (and there are so many more worthwhile projects that could be done imo), it won't happen. Dave
