On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 00:09 +0300, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> 
> On 7/13/07, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>         
>         On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:28 -0700, Johnson, Charles F wrote:
>         > I'm not sure what you mean by a Linux meta package.
>         > Did you get my comment that we need to make sure SMP is
>         turned on due to
>         > the hyperthreading feature of the processor ? 
>         
>         I didn't, but Amit did. However, it wasn't in time for this
>         upload. It
>         will be in the next kernel though.
> 
> As discussed with Jacob, you should install linux-image-ume and boot
> with the kernel to test if something else might be
> missing since I have removed a  lot of things from the default
> kernel configuration for the UME flavour. 
> 
> Current missing list:
> - SMP
> 
> Removed
> -------
> - APM
> - majority of SCSI, pcmcia
> - audit support (SELinux)
> - Reduce kernel log buffers 
> - Large Block devices
> - paravirtualization support
> - Legacy stuff: VM86,
> - EFI, kexec, CRASH_DUMP

Do you think we'll ever want to use kexec to make rebooting after a
kernel upgrade faster?

> - PCCARD
> - HOTPLUG_PCI

Will any of these ever be dockable? Doesn't that require PCI hotplug?

> - ADVANCE_ROUTER
> - IP_MROUTE - multicast routing
> - IP_VS - virtual server 
> - ATM, DECNET, 802.1d bridging, IPX
> - HAMRADIO
> - PNPBIOS, ISAPNP 
> - Drivers->Misc
> - MD - Raid and LVM
> - WLAN_PRE80211
> - SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS - > 4 serial ports
> - Filesystems: GFS2, OCFS2, Reiser, JFS, XFS, Minix, ROM,
> Miscellaneous FS, 
> NFS server, NCP,
> - PARTITION_ADVANCED 
> - ARCnet, Ethernet, old WLAN, ATM, ISDN adapters
> - non-Intel AGP/DRM/FB/Videocards/Soundcards
> 
> 
> Future consideration for removal: Things left on to ease debugging for
> now 
> - CONFIG_KALLSYMS, KALLSYMS_ALL 
> - CONFIG_PRINTK
> - COMPAT_VDSO

I say ditch this one. We only need it currently because of some ancient
proprietary software that I doubt people will be running on these
systems.

> - ISA
> - Drivers -> Block devices -> BLK_DEV_xx
> - RADIO_ADAPTERS, DVB
> - Plenty of modules
> 
> 
> --
> Amit Kucheria, Linux developer 
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