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They used vanialla kernel

They used vanialla kernel

Posted Mar 4, 2011 21:51 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: They used vanialla kernel by khim
Parent article: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)

> RedHat does not want this. It basically says: no problem, roll out your own kernel, if you wish, but then, please, support your userspace too.

But wait...RedHat is going to do that by making it hard for Oracle to steal RedHat's kernel changes? Which Oracle wasn't doing anyways...Errrrrrr, what?

PS: what's up with Oracle's kernel, anyways? Their git tree doesn't seem to have been updated in ages:
http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-2.6-unbreakable.git;a=...


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They used vanialla kernel

Posted Mar 4, 2011 22:23 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

>PS: what's up with Oracle's kernel, anyways? Their git tree doesn't seem to have been updated in ages:

Are you surprised? Ever since the acquisition thing, everything has practically come to a halt. Last entry of onnv (below) is just about the same timeframe unbreakable.git stopped being updated.

changeset: 13149:b23a4dab3d50
tag: tip
date: Wed Aug 18 15:52:48 2010 -0600
summary: 6973228 Cannot download firmware 2.103.x.x on Emulex FCoE HBAs

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