On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)splat.cc> wrote:
Josh Boyer (jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> > 2) A per-arch filter list, because the existing one that works on
> > x86_64 leaves modules in kernel-core on ARM that lack their
> > dependencies. Bad.
>
> OK, I sorted this out this week. I believe the only arch left to do is
> s390x and that's only because I forgot about it. Oops.
Is this even needed on s390 for reasons other than consistency? Similarly
with power, is the idea to have a core kernel for running on an LPAR and
then -drivers for the rest of it?
Needed? Probably not. At the moment it's not possible to build a
normal kernel on one arch and the split on another. If we're going to
go off and make changes to anaconda and yum and dnf to cope with this,
consistency on what is shipped is probably a good thing.
That being said, it is flexible in terms of the content of those
packages. So ppc64 could do what you suggest. s390x would arguably
just shove almost everything in -drivers. In reality, I expect most
arches to just install both packages anyway.
josh