Heads up on an forthcoming rawhide kernel change...

Jarod Wilson jwilson at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 00:18:33 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 25 March 2008 05:37:27 pm Don Dutile wrote:
> is there still an i686-PAE variant, and if so, is that distinguished in
> the kernel naming below ?

Yep, there's still an i686 PAE, and it looks like so:

# uname -r
2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE

/boot/config-2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE
/boot/initrd-2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE.img
/boot/System.map-2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE

/lib/modules/2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686PAE
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-0.154.rc6.git7.fc9.i686-PAE
(Yes, both, there's a symlink created for historical reasons I'm not actually 
aware of)...

So basically, everything just keys off of what uname -r is now, where before, 
we were uname -r everywhere except the bits in /usr/src/kernels, which 
were '$(uname -r)-$(uname -m)'.

> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > So we had a bug filed a while ago, requesting the ability to install the
> > same kernel version of different arches on the same system with the same
> > /boot partition:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=197065
> >
> > To do that, we've made some changes that should be transparent to most
> > users, save those that are building external kernel modules.
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