where to base?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Oct 20 12:32:22 EDT 2006


On Friday 20 October 2006 11:15, Andres Salomon wrote:
> What about a 4th option; FC6 + FC7 kernel?  I consider stabilizing the
> toolchain and environment at this point a must.  However, for driver
> development we've been tracking Linus's git tree, and the closer we are
> to that the easier it will be to port drivers.  There are also
> additional features that we're hoping will make it into Linus's kernel;
> rather than backporting them to RHEL5's kernel, I'd rather just see the
> latest kernel used.

This is possible, I think.  Our build system allows for this but I don't know 
if its ever been tested.  The only problem is when something in the kernel 
goes beyond what the FC6 userland can handle, or something in the package 
itself is beyond what FC6 userland can handle.  Still, its doable.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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