I could try building the kernel and what not... but I'd need quite a bit of help most likely; unless of course its easier than I think. On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 10:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:43:41PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
I'm not actually saying to do anything. I'm saying as long as someone else, Arch, is already going to perform the experiment of trying to optimize a kernel for netbooks, or maybe just atom netbooks, then there's not much reason for anyone else to do it until the numbers come back.
I've done a special kernel "optimized" for the Atom netbook platform in the past, for other SUSE products[1], and yes, there are real benefits to do that if you are running that type of hardware on both power savings and some performance numbers.
But, and this is the big but, you have to have someone willing to maintain that configuration, and the infrastructure in which to be able to properly select that kernel "flavor", which, for openSUSE, I don't think we have.
If you really want, and need, something like this, it's almost easier to just build your own custom kernels for your specific hardware, there are whole books written[2] on how to do this type of thing.
Try not to let my disdain for Tumbleweed to bleed over into other areas.
I have no idea what Tumbleweed matters for this topic at all, with the exception that you seem to hold me in some sort of weird disdain for it, which is fine, I can easily make the feeling mutual :)
thanks,
greg k-h
[1] Meego and before that, Moblin [2] http://files.kroah.com/lkn/ is one such example, free online.
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