performance testing rawhide.

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 13:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> There have been a bunch of requests over time to off non-debug builds
> of the rawhide kernel for people wanting to do performance regression testing etc
> 
> We could do this two ways.
> 
> - The notion that was put forward was to keep 'kernel' as being debug mode,
>   and add a 'kernel-nodebug'. So it's sort of the inverse of the releases.
> 
> - Stop making rawhide 'debug by default', and just start shipping kernel-debug
>   for rawhide as we do for releases.
> 
> The latter involves less uglification of the spec, but we're probably going
> to lose a lot of testing if people aren't going to be running kernel-debug
> by default. (How many reports do we get from kernel-debug users ? Not many).
> 
> thoughts?

I'd like to see a "kernel-server" package that could be used for
testing. I suggest in any case, leaving debug on and having a non-debug
kernel variant for those wanting to test (and also to test if there's a
problem with debugging options turned on).

Jon.