[arch-dev-public] kernel-2.6.27-lts possible changes?

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Thu Dec 17 08:00:13 EST 2009


Am Mittwoch 16 Dezember 2009 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
> Hi guys,
> just looked at kernel26-lts PKGBUILD and config files.
> 
> I have locally modified it to also split the headers out from standard
> package, as the stock kernel PKGBUILD does.
> 
> - Adding xen pvops would make sense on a so called server kernel.
>   http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> I can't test this myself but according to the link above i guess it's safe
>  to enable it. It's now also enabled in .32 kernel 64 bit kernel.
> 
> - Since the last pkgver it is possible now to build binary modules against
>    the lts kernel, without the need of rebuilding them on every small bump.
> Imho it would make sense to provide the same binary modules for this kernel
>  as we do for the stock kernel.
> 
> Do you have any other thoughts or objections?
> 
> If i get some input from you and you agree to the above, i could put this
> stuff tomorrow to testing repository.
> 
> greetings
> tpowa
> 
Anyone?

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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