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"C. Bergström" <[log in to unmask]>
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"C. Bergström" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:50:07 +0700
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> Scientific Linux is an enterprise release.  We are based  off RHEL and 
> not Fedora.  That means we are much more stable and do not run the 
> latest kernel.
> If you need some functionality that is only found in the latest 
> kernels, then you need to talk with RedHat about porting that 
> functionality into RHEL's kernel, or you need to figure out how to 
> separate that functionality into a kernel module that can be loaded 
> into older 2.6 kernels.
>
> Or is that what you are asking, how to package up a kernel module for 
> enterprise releases such as SL, RHEL and CentOS?
I'd like to make a kernel, module and packages that are "experimental" 
and available to the SL users.  I've no problem hosting it, but would in 
general like to make it easy and available to everyone for testing.  The 
kernel interface between libc likely hasn't changed so it'll really come 
down to driver support and built-in options/bugs. etc..


Thanks

./C

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