Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 17:46 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 05:40:20PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 16:14 +0200 schrieb Axel Thimm: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:07:59PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > As we move forward with Xen enablement, there's a desire for > > > > being able to access more than 4 gigs of RAM on 32-bit Xen hosts. The > > > > options for handling this are > > > [...] > > > > 2) Switch the 32-bit xen kernels to require PAE. For most "current" > > > > non-laptop hardware, this is a non-issue. It does mean that xen won't > > > > work a lot of earlier PentiumM laptops > > > [...] > > > > Given these, we're looking at going with #2 and thus only having Xen > > > > work on PAE-capable hardware in the development tree. And we're > > > > planning to try to execute this switchover the beginning of next week. > > > > Note that this will not affect bare metal installs at all. > > > [...] > > > So maybe rawhide should continue with both PAE and non-PAE kernels and > > > decide on dropping the non-PAE when a release is about to be cut? > > > Otherwise you will keep out a large amount of (admittedly casual) > > > testers. > > > > Well, I was always against kernel's in Fedora Extras (and I still am, > > [mostly]). But having a Xen non-PAE kernel in Extras sounds like the > > proper solution for the above problem. But having kernels in Extras > > would only be okay for me if > > - they are build with the same spec-file as the other kernels > > - they are build on the same build system in the same step as the other > > kernels > > - they are moved to the proper Extras repo in the same moment as the > > other kernels are pushed out > > > > There are some technical problems that probably would need to be solved > > before the above could be realized, but that should be possible if we > > really want to. > > Basically you want src.rpms in Core, but a way to move subpackages > from a "Core build" to Extras, correct? Yes. > That only covers Jeremy's "no place on CD" point, what about > migration and maintenance/security etc.? Build from the same specfile in the same step as the other (kernel-)packages, so maintenance/security is and should still be in the hands of the core maintainer. CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
