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[Cooker] Re: RC kernels on cooker

Thomas Backlund

2008-05-13

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino skrev:
> Hi there,
>
> I don't remember if this was discussed before, but since the
> development of 2008.1 we are rebasing the kernel as early as possible.
>
> This means that we should rebase to 2.6.26-rc2 and follow upstream
> -rc releases.
>
> The big advantage of this is that we do the hard work very early
> in the development phase and help upstream by reporting bugs and
> testing.
>
> The disadvantage is that several things are likely to stay broken
> for some time (read dkms).
>
> I would like to know if someone is against early rebase before
> we do it.
>
> It's important to remember that we did it for 2008.1 and,
> as far as I can remember, it worked well.
>

Since we will most likely be using 2.6.26 in 2009.0 we might as well
start the big work...

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Thomas
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