--- Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recent distros (except slackware) may not work with 2.4 (udev/devfs/etc)
> but apart from that any recent 2.6 kernel should do (bearing in mind
> that few bugfixes are backported (except for 2.6.16).
I was thinking more in terms of features added throughout the 2.6 series like
syslets, USB handling changes, udev versus hotplug, selinux, sysctls, ioctls,
alsa v oss; that sort of thing. These features have evolved over time as code
has become unmaintained or gone out of favour and I would expect that these
changes in the kernel's support for features would cause some grief if the
kernel used didn't match the facilities an image expected the kernel to
provide.
> > The nagafix page seems to promote a mix-and-match approach which doesn't
> > sound like it would deliver the best results.
>
> Heh? It's just a repository of prebuilt filesystems and kernel images,
> it is not meant to promote any particular combination, what makes you
> think that?
It's also probably the first place beginners go to get a quick-start with UML
(it was for me). I just expect there to be particular incompatibilites between
certain uml-kernels and distro images (reasoning outlined above). I expected to
see mention of a kernel or kernels known to work with each image as a basic
guide for beginners; eg. a debian pack, fc7 pack, centos pack, etc where you
can get a kernel and image already tested together.
When I look at nagafix I see N kernels and M images; so how do I chose which
kernel to get for a particular image I decide to run?
If there are no kernel-v-image incompatibilities then all is well - just my
inexperience showing. But it would also be nice to have an indication one way
or the other in a prominent place.
I'm happy to RTFM if this is already covered somewhere. I just haven't seen it
yet.
--
Rich
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