Server product kernel requirements

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/30/2013 11:10 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 10:16 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> [ Resend with the right server mailing list address.  Sorry
>> kernel@ people.]
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I realize the WG is just forming up and you have a lot of other
>> items to cover for now, but I wanted to get this sent out and
>> have people start thinking about it sooner rather than later.
>> 
>> The kernel team is interested in what the Server WG sees as its 
>> requirements for the kernel package.  Does today's kernel image
>> mostly suit those needs already, or are there changes that would
>> be beneficial?
>> 
>> While you think about this, please keep in mind that the kernel
>> team really wants to keep a single kernel package across all 3
>> products as much as possible.  We won't scale to providing
>> multiple kernel packages or vmlinux binaries for each product.
>> At the moment, we're essentially looking for a good "core" kernel
>> package that suits cloud, server, and workstation and then at
>> repackaging the drivers into subpackages where appropriate.
>> 
>> If you have changes you'd like to see, please let us know what
>> they are and the reasoning behind those changes.  Hopefully we
>> can work with all 3 WGs and come up with something suitable for
>> everyone. Thanks for your time.
> 
> Personally I think that as long as the kernel is modular and all
> useful modules are available, the Server WG should not have trouble
> with it.
> 
> I guess the installation procedure (hence Anaconda) need to be
> somewhat customizable so that the server image is by default a lot
> friendlier to the type of hardware a server gets to use, and the
> kind of defaults that make more sense for a server vs say desktop
> or cloud.
> 
> But I think all this can be built easily above a common kernel.
> 


I agree as well. A common kernel is paramount.

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