On 21/10/15 17:46, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
I have no problems with not having to compile another version of the kernel such as kernel-desktop if the same settings which were, and still are, in kernel-desktop were to be used in latest (for want of a better description) kernel-default.
As the 'Differences' I provided in that Suse Paste show, there is no reason why kernel-default should not use the settings used in kernel-desktop. There is only one possibly significant difference - the kernel timer frequency (CONFIG_HZ_250/CONFIG_HZ_1000). I don't know the significane of this, but there are other timers available.
For years since kernel-desktop has been the "default" kernel installed in every release of openSUSE, nobody has complained of any negative effects of having this *-desktop installed, why then replace it with the *-default and its CONFIG settings? Because they're virtually the same?
But having stated this, I wonder why there is no opposition to having to maintain and compile different kernels such as-
kernel-ec2 Specific purpose: Amazon Elastic Cloud.
kernel-pae (NOTE: this was dropped in v4.1.10-1 in 'Leap of Faith' RC1) Specific purpose: access +4Gb on 32bit-only machines.
kernel-pv Specific purpose: paravirtualized kernel for Xen DomU.
kernel-vanilla The name should say it all, but otherwise it's the Linux kernel without open/SUSE patches.
kernel-xen? The Xen Dom0 kernel.
I would hazard a guess and say there's no opposition to those because they serve specific purposes. kernel-desktop doesn't seem to serve any purpose.
Then, provided that is if you don't mind me asking, why was the kernel-desktop ever created as the "default" kernel to be installed during every release of openSUSE for the past xx years? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.2.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org