Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi, I'm just going through the beta 2 update packages in the new factory and 
> > I see yast wants to install three kernel
> > packages :-
> > kernel-pae - Kernel with PAE Support, kernel-pae-base - Kernel with PAE 
> > Support - base modules and kernel-pae-extra -
> > Kernel with PAE Support - extra modules.
> > Where can I find information on what has happened to the kernel in opensuse?
>
> From the changelog of kernel-source:
>
> - Split the binary kernel packages into three parts:
>   + kernel-$flavor-base: very reduced hardware support, intended
>                          to be used in virtual machine images
>   + kernel-$flavor: extends the base package; contains all kernel
>                     modules we can support
>   + kernel-$flavor-extra: all other kernel modules which may be
>                           useful, but which we cannot support.
>
> If you have questions or comments, please ask on the opensuse-kernel
> mailing list,
>
> Andreas
Thanks I sent the query to the kernel list and received the explanation I 
needed.
Regards
Dave P

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