From: "Dave Jones" <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 20:18, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > > > As far as the kernel is concerned, there's not going to be > > > anything earth-shattering in there. Mostly just further > > > stabilisation work on what we currently have, and maybe > > > 1-2 extras. The 'keep things close to mainline' idea is still > > > going to ring true, and hopefully we can stick to somewhere > > > around our current 40 odd patches, if not lower. > > > Continually rebasing against mainline of course means anything new that > > > appears there (drivers/protocols etc) will automatically get picked up. > > > Otherwise pretty much more of the same. > > One thing I did neglect to mention here, as RHEL4 is going to be > based off of the FC3 kernel, any features deemed worthy of > inclusion in RHEL4 will very likely appear in FC3 too. > (Both to maximise testing, and usage of resources [Biggest > resource in point here being myself and Arjan's time]). > > For the most part though, I wouldn't expect anything really > invasive on the scale that NPTL was to Red Hat Linux 9 for example. > > The invasive stuff in FC is currently limited to 4g/4g and > execshield. Hopefully it'll stay that way. Any chance that firewire will work in FC3? Ben
