Fedora 12 has gone gold

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 03:34:09PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 03:58:25PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:21:13PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > On 11/14/2009 07:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:29:30PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > >> We have just completed our Go / No Go meeting for Fedora 12 and have
> > > >> reached the decision to Go.  Fedora 12's package set is golden and we're
> > > >> ready to stage things for shipping.  Great work all around, I'm very
> > > >> proud of this release.  I'm sure there will be more back patting and
> > > >> hand shaking to come, but Will Woods would like to remind everybody that
> > > >> it's just 11 weeks until Fedora 13 Alpha freeze!
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm.. so I guess this means Fedora 12 will ship with 2.6.31.5 kernel? 
> > > > 
> > > > 2.6.31.6 would have had some important Xen PV guest bugfixes:
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533730
> > > 
> > > I am sure, we will get kernel updates post-release due to security
> > > reasons anyway.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah.. that I'm aware of. It just means the GA kernel (and thus
> > installer) won't boot on Intel Nehalem CPUs. 
> 
>   Judging from the bug report, it will only fail to boot when used over Xen.
> Which I believe represents small minority of Fedora users.
> 

Yes, when used as Xen paravirtualized (PV) guest, on Intel Nehalem
CPUs :)

-- Pasi