--- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@darkover.org wrote:
No. It's different.
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
In a nut shell: only bugs, not features.
A small disagreement, with your permission: support for new hardware is sometimes added by RHAT to older kernels, in the first 2.5 years of a release.
Take the BCM5754 (0x167A) Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller you can find in Dell Precision 390.
BCM5757 is supported (TG3) in the kernel only since 2.6.17-rc1. However, RHAT has backported the support for it in the 2.6.9 kernel, and it's currently available in RHEL4-U4 and CentOS 4.4.
Actually, RHEL4-U4 Desktop/Workstation is certified for Dell Precision 390, as you can find by searching hardware.redhat.com for bcm5754.
And this is not a bug fix, but a new feature.
R-C
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