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

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Freitag 18 Dezember 2009 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Hmm, I don't use the lts kernel, so I can't really answer, but it
> seems ok to enable the pvops stuff.
> 
> Regarding shipping modules, I think that's a very good idea, but it's more
>  work
> 
Well modules only needs to be rebuild on update, which happens rarely.
Nvidia drivers bump relativly often, but the others are not bumping every one 
or 2 months. 

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