performance testing rawhide.

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 01:01:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

What the hell are you talking about, and what does it have to do with
what Dave asked?

I'd like to see a
kernel-embedded-ppc-without-float-but-with-ATI-KMS-module-built-in-with-ponies.
 See, I can spout random crap too.

josh


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