On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:13:59AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Marcus Meissner
wrote: No, it is not the same kernel. SLES so far has 3.12 as latest kernel, Leap has a 4.1 kernel.
Okay. As I understood it, part of the rationale for Leap was for SUSE and openSUSE to share more source. I assumed that would, to a large extent, include the kernel. Is this a goal?
Well, I think that during the Leap development it became clear that people want a fresher kernel for better hardware support, so (apparently) the decision was done to use a newer kernel for Leap.
Isn't it the case that many of the RT extensions have been made part of the mainline kernel and no longer need to be applied to the kernel as a patch? Would those RT extensions exist and be enabled in the standard kernel in SUSE and openSUSE?
I think so, yes.
As usual, someone would need to do it...
I thought that the kernel maintainers have been adding some of the RT extensions to the generic kernel, making some of them obsolete as extensions. What is unclear to me is the state of that at any given time (RTFM, I know). And, I would imagine, some of these are compile-time selected. These compile-time selections are decided by the distros. I guess SUSE and openSUSE make independent decisions about these things.
I do not know either. Perhaps opensuse-kernel list can help. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org