[SSI-users] Re: [SSI-devel] Binary release and future kernel development

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@di...>]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 08:48, Brian J. Watson wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> >Do we have anybody running open-ssi on production systems ?.
> >
> 
> Perhaps no one's yet using it in production, but I suspect there are a 
> few people silently watching these lists and evaluating how they could 
> do so. Most of them probably want to run Red Hat. For their sake, it's 
> important to make sure there are stable OpenSSI RPMs that are as close 
> as possible to their base distribution. That's why I want to focus my 
> efforts on the Red Hat branch, to make sure that it's stable and 
> receives sufficient testing.

We didn't hear from any of them. But there were two people who requested
not to switch to Redhat kernel. So the voting is 2:0 :)

> 
> As I said, I'm not suggesting we abandon the vanilla kernel. I'm 
> confident someone will step up to make sure the trunk of the repository 
> stays in sync with the Red Hat branch. If anyone chooses to continue 
> development on the trunk, I will similarly make sure that important 
> changes are pulled over to the RH side.
> 
> As you say, development of Alpha is a good thing to continue on the 
> trunk, since RH may not continue to support it. For the same reason, I 
> won't worry about pulling Alpha stuff over to the RH branch. On the 
> other hand, LVS is something I do want keep synced, and I will make sure 
> that happens if you want to develop it on the trunk.
> 

That brings other problem. John has been really good at taking care of
all architecture when moving to higher kernel releases. Whenever he does
that he takes care of all the archs. ( Great work!!!). Infact i got
2.4.18 up on alpha with just one compile fix. Now if you don't pull
alpha to RH branch that means John/others will not be doing the merge
when we go up the releases and alpha will need more work than now. This
is going to be true for all other architecture that RH doesn't support.
If the interest in IA64 decrease possibly that too ;-)

So what we achieve by this  is, to get those big boys who hesitate to
run vanilla kernel on their box  try and use open-ssi we are  making 
porting/supporting of open-ssi on other architectures more difficult. 


Again from what others/projects are doing i see most of them working on
vanilla linux kernel . 


But One thing I would like to say is that, if you are sure that we can 
do early/frequent releases and easy installable STABLE RPMS by switching
the redhat kernel, then my vote is to switch to redhat kernel. That make
the voting result 2:1 ;-)


-aneesh