On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:31:24PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 03/18/2010 03:02 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > >> [...] What users eagerly replace their kernels? > > > > > > Those 99% who click on the 'install 193 updates' popup. > > > > > > > Of which 1 is the kernel, and 192 are userspace updates (of which one may be > > qemu). > > I think you didnt understand my (tersely explained) point - which is probably > my fault. What i said is: > > - distros update the kernel first. Often in stable releases as well if > there's a new kernel released. (They must because it provides new hardware > enablement and other critical changes they generally cannot skip.) > > - Qemu on the other hand is not upgraded with (nearly) that level of urgency. > Completely new versions will generally have to wait for the next distro > release. This has nothing todo with them being in separate source repos. We could update QEMU to new major feature releaes with the same frequency in a Fedora release, but we delibrately choose not to rebase the QEMU userspace because experiance has shown the downside from new bugs / regressions outweighs the benefit of any new features. The QEMU updates in stable Fedora trees, now just follow the minor bugfix release stream provided by QEMU & those arrive in Fedora with little noticable delay. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
