kernel packaging split up landing in Rawhide
Reindl Harald
h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Apr 30 12:38:33 UTC 2014
Am 29.04.2014 23:41, schrieb Josh Boyer:
> As part of the F21 "Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud" Feature[1],
> I've committed and pushed the kernel packaging split up into
> kernel-core and kernel-drivers subpackages. For those of you running
> rawhide, this really shouldn't be a major impact at all. When you do
> a yum update, you will see "kernel", "kernel-core", and
> "kernel-drivers" packages being installed. The end result should be
> in line with today's rawhide kernels.
>
> Note: Unless you're using a typical VM or Cloud image, don't uninstall
> the kernel or kernel-drivers packages. The machine may boot with just
> kernel-core, but it will lack drivers for a significant portion of
> bare-metal hardware without kernel-drivers installed.
>
> Despite best efforts in testing, it's always possible a bug or two
> snuck through. In the event that you do have an issue with this,
> please file a bug against the kernel package.
>
> josh
>
> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud
thank you - looks pretty fine for VMware guests
[root at rawhide ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-core-3.15.0-0.rc3.git1.10.fc21.x86_64
[root at rawhide ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
zram 19948 2
crct10dif_pclmul 14268 0
crc32_pclmul 13133 0
crc32c_intel 22094 0
vmw_balloon 13487 0
ghash_clmulni_intel 13230 0
vmxnet3 53723 0
vmw_pvscsi 27370 2
[root at rawhide ~]# df
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 ext4 12G 682M 11G 6% /
/dev/sda1 ext4 487M 37M 447M 8% /boot
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