On 11/16/2011 6:51 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:15:04PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
On 11/16/2011 9:43 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Stefan Seyfried
wrote: Looks like people from the ArchLinux team have been working on this. I personally would love a kernel optimized for my netbook, and for the clients I
What's the difference to their standard kernel?
I don't see anything really important there, except perhaps power management settings and reduced memory footprint.
But I wouldn't think the reduced footprint (50M to 10M) is justified. Yes, it's a 5x reduction, but it's also only 40M, most netbooks have around 1G nowadays. Maybe if it was an embedded system or a tablet. Or maybe the reduced footprint also reduces battery consumption?
So, I would say, not really worth the maintenance overhead unless measurements prove it otherwise.
Maybe you have to do it to determine if it was worth doing. I think it's good enough for now to let them do it because it only takes one to perform the experiment, it will apply to all.
We just won't be seen as "leaders" and "innovators" if it turns out to be worth doing after all.
Um, no one has yet to determine exactly what this is, so don't try to insult us before that please.
Or maybe the process of maintaining a kernel flavor shouldn't be so expensive.
Any hints on making it easier is greatly appreciated. Seriously.
Rather than work on a new package, work on improving the automation even more (I know it's already considerable!), then anyone could make a -netbook kernel in a home repo. You know, in your "copious free time" :)
You can easily do that today, what needs to be done there?
thanks,
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. But it's also not automatically stupid for at least one entity to at least try it once to see if it was worth doing, instead of saying, well unless you can show it's worth doing then it's a waste to do it. That logic means it would never get tried out even once. Try not to let my disdain for Tumbleweed to bleed over into other areas. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org