On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:36:10AM -0700, Jason Richey wrote:
I can understand the ease of installation of an RPM kernel, but I think we would do well to use a kernel that was compiled with our hardware in mind. Surely, we don't need sound support or other such things boating our kernel, and we might enjoy a little extra performance from a kernel that doesn't have to use modules to access it's primary IO devices.
Jason
I don't think that we'll derive much benefit from Linux, being the modular monolithic kernel that it is. The only thing building our own kernel would really save us is boot time (since it won't be probing a bunch of modules). I don't think we want to mess with the kernel - there is a good chance that putting in something foreign could cause Redhats bootup scripts to have weird errors. (can't say for sure, I haven't installed a custom kernel on Redhat since 4.x...) Still, if we are aiming for stability over a couple percent speed improvement, I think that using the tested Redhat kernel would definitely be the way to go.