From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040518 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: It would be really nice to have the option of installing kernels with fewer patches / "features" added. I would suggest a "vanilla" (only include necessary patches and options to work with FC), an intermediate-complexity kernel with only the most stable patches / compile options enabled and the full-blown patched and tweaked FC kernel. I know I can recompile, but I'd rather 'yum install kernel-vanilla' or similar. This would likely reduce the number of bug reports as people having problems with all the added "features" of the RH/FC kernels would fall back to a less complex configuration. Just a thought... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NA How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: NA Actual Results: NA Expected Results: NA Additional info:
that doesn't sound too good an idea to me on first sight; our kernels only have like 3 or 4 big features anyway and it's a lot of work to do more kernels.... for what gain?
I think 'alternative' kernel packages should probably belong in fedora-extras when that gets off the ground. There may be some value in a vanilla package for regression testing.
Arjan is now packaging up 2.6-ac kernels, which can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/ac/