Le mercredi 13 mai 2015 à 08:55 +0200, Hans Witvliet a écrit :
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 15:36 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le mercredi 06 mai 2015 à 08:29 -0500, Malcolm a écrit :
On Wed 06 May 2015 01:45:06 PM CDT, Richard Brown wrote:
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You also have to consider that SUSE is currently considering the possibility of not backporting fixes/features but actually changing the Kernel version they use in SLE 12 SP2 (assuming they can maintain API/ABI stability of course), so in our case with openSUSE we'd only have this kernel for about a year.. well maintained, with hardware enablement, and proper security patches.. sure if people can raise actual legitimate problems, I'm happy to hear them but I would prefer if the discussion continued on the basis of facts, not peoples theories about what does or doesn't work in the SLE codebase we now get to play with ;)
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Hi The only thing I've had to compile for the kernel was the it87 module for SLES 12, it is present for SLED 12...
This means it is part of kernel-*-extra package (which is only available on SLED and not on SLES).
My proposal would be for an openSUSE kernel based on SLE kernel, we could have a single kernel package which would include the content on kernel + kernel-extra (if kernel team is fine with that)..
Converging would be nice, but I had the impression that (at least with sles) the kernel is lagging very much?
I remember once hearing (could be mistaken) that @maxfeld, they had to backport all sorts of recent kernel-bugfixes to ancient sles-kernels....
Again, it depends on your vision of "lagging" ;) Of course, sles kernel are getting a lot of backports (for instance, the btrfs stack in SLES kernel is way more recent than the one from vanilla 3.12) but OTOH, each new upstream kernel is introducing regressions, which are not always fixed (I remember reading about this on LWN recently but couldn't find the url). The point of using a "SLE" kernel would be to leverage work being done by SUSE kernel team for SLE in "less regression caused by new kernel" but still getting some new features. And kernel version updates are scheduled for some Service Packs in SLE (not just every service pack, unlike what we are currently doing on openSUSE regular release).. -- Frederic Crozat Enterprise Desktop Release Manager SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org