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On 10/30/2013 11:10 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 10:16 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> [ Resend with the right server mailing list address. Sorry
> kernel@ people.]
>
> Hi All,
>
> I realize the WG is just forming up and you have a lot of other
> items to cover for now, but I wanted to get this sent out and
> have people start thinking about it sooner rather than later.
>
> The kernel team is interested in what the Server WG sees as its
> requirements for the kernel package. Does today's kernel image
> mostly suit those needs already, or are there changes that would
> be beneficial?
>
> While you think about this, please keep in mind that the kernel
> team really wants to keep a single kernel package across all 3
> products as much as possible. We won't scale to providing
> multiple kernel packages or vmlinux binaries for each product.
> At the moment, we're essentially looking for a good "core" kernel
> package that suits cloud, server, and workstation and then at
> repackaging the drivers into subpackages where appropriate.
>
> If you have changes you'd like to see, please let us know what
> they are and the reasoning behind those changes. Hopefully we
> can work with all 3 WGs and come up with something suitable for
> everyone. Thanks for your time.
Personally I think that as long as the kernel is modular and all
useful modules are available, the Server WG should not have trouble
with it.
I guess the installation procedure (hence Anaconda) need to be
somewhat customizable so that the server image is by default a lot
friendlier to the type of hardware a server gets to use, and the
kind of defaults that make more sense for a server vs say desktop
or cloud.
But I think all this can be built easily above a common kernel.
I agree as well. A common kernel is paramount.
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