Distro kernel update

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:22:07PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> JB> F14:
> [...]
> JB> The two most likely options are staying on 2.6.35.x, or moving to
> JB> 2.6.40 as F15 did.
> 
> Has anyone made 2.6.40 packages install on F14?  Unfortunately the F15
> kernel package needs some other stuff, and due to all of the systemd
> changes I'm not sure it would boot OK.

No.  And I wouldn't recommend force installing the F15 versions either.
If (and it's a big if) we move F14 to 2.6.40, we need to update a number
of userspace packages first, including microcode_ctl so people with
various AMD systems can actually boot...

> I would happily deploy a 2.6.40 on my remaining F14 machines even if I
> had to pull it from an external repo.

We need to discuss this a bit more, but we could potentially setup a
koper with the various bits.

josh