where to base?

[Andres Salomon]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 12:32 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, the main thing I'd worry about would be another udev requirement
bump.  I can't imagine anything else requiring updated userland tools;
module handling and initramfs stuff seems to be pretty stable atm.