From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schweikert To: documentation@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: [Documentation] Kernel choice in IPFire 3.x Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:22:03 +0100 Message-ID: <53DE8637-6B13-46BF-BFC4-B5733EE7FD50@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1327076025.2165.64.camel@rice-oxley.tremer.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6937487262044994817==" List-Id: --===============6937487262044994817== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit What about Kernel-rrf? Reduced Range of functions? Ben Am 20.01.2012 um 17:13 schrieb Michael Tremer : > Hey, > > I think that is quite long, but actually when I was talking to Arne, he > came up with the following idea: > > Why name the PAE-kernel kernel-PAE when PAE is only one of the features > it comes with and is the default one. It would be much better to call if > the default kernel. Nothing else. > > That would imply that we need to rename the other version, which is a > bit hard to do, because I have not found a simply and cheesy name that > is to the point. Any suggestions? > > -Michael > > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:12 +0100, Daniel Weismüller wrote: >> Hi >> >> Why you just name it "without-PAE" >> >> Daniel >> >> Am 19.01.2012 12:46, schrieb Michael Tremer: >>> Hey Daniel, >>> >>> thank you for your reply. >>> >>> Do you have any suggestion for the name of the "default" kernel? >>> >>> I think it is not that bad because that kernel runs by "default" on any >>> i686 box. But there may be better names around. >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> P.S. Make sure you reply to Arne and Ben as well, because they have not >>> subscribed to this list. >>> >>> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:32 +0100, Daniel Weismüller wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> Good work at all. I think it is easy to understand why it is necessary >>>> to use different kernels. >>>> >>>> Only one point. In my opinion it is a bad choice to name the "i686 >>>> non-pae kernel" "default kernel" because it isn't our default kernel for >>>> the i686 architecture. >>>> >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> Am 18.01.2012 23:12, schrieb Michael Tremer: >>>>> Hello you 2, >>>>> >>>>> I would like you to review the documentation I have written about the >>>>> kernel choice in IPFire 3.x at http://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/kernels. >>>>> >>>>> We should just briefly write down why we decided to do things in this >>>>> way and I want to make sure that I did not get anything wrong or missed >>>>> an important reason. >>>>> >>>>> -Michael >>>>> >>>>> P.S. Please make sure to reply to the list as well. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Documentation mailing list >>>>> Documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org >>>>> http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Documentation mailing list >>>> Documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org >>>> http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation > --===============6937487262044994817==--