I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline kernel?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael St. Laurent" mikes@hartwellcorp.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 9:45:09 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected Subject: [CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel
I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline kernel?
Googling "Centosplus" will give you the answers you seek, but to save you the effort:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt ... ---------------------------------- kernel-2.6.x-x.x.x.xxx.plus.c4 ---------------------------------- This is a kernel that has many of the options and modules turned on which are turned off by default in the upstream providers kernels. A list of some of the items that this Kernel includes are:
File Systems: NTFS (read and write) XFS (read and write) JFS (read and write) ReiserFS (read and write) UFS {BSD default FS} (read only) BeOS FS (read only) AFS (read only)
Hardware Modules: All USB All Firewire All SCSI Video4 Linux and all Video, Audio and Radio modules
IPX, DECNET, netware file mount support, ability to write to a Windows Dynamic Partition. There are other items as well. See this link for the actual config files used to build the latest unsupported kernel:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/kernel-unsupported/
Note: Starting with kernel-2.6.9-42.x.x.plus.c4, xfs-kernel-modules is provided for the centosplus kernels and the standard centos kernels. These modules are newer XFS code from SGI than the standard 2.6.9 modules included in the CentOS kernel. ...
They also include the userspace tools for the supported file systems too.
HTH,
James
On 8/8/07, Michael St. Laurent mikes@hartwellcorp.com wrote:
I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline kernel?
You would need to compare the config files between the distro kernel and centosplus kernel. For example, in 2.6.18-8.1.8, the following options that are turned off in the distro kernel are enabled in centosplus.
# CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set # CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set # CONFIG_NET_SB1000 is not set # CONFIG_HP100 is not set # CONFIG_DGRS is not set # CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set # CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set # CONFIG_SUNDANCE_MMIO is not set # CONFIG_ATP is not set # CONFIG_DE600 is not set # CONFIG_DE620 is not set # CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set # CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set # CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set # CONFIG_QLA3XXX is not set # CONFIG_ATM_ZATM is not set # CONFIG_ATM_ZATM_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_DEFXX is not set # CONFIG_SKFP is not set # CONFIG_SHAPER is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVI is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_CQCAM is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_W9966 is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5246A is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5249 is not set # CONFIG_TUNER_3036 is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_ZORAN is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134 is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MXB is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_DPC is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_ORION is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88 is not set # CONFIG_RADIO_GEMTEK_PCI is not set # CONFIG_RADIO_MAXIRADIO is not set # CONFIG_RADIO_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set # CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
On 8/8/07, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/8/07, Michael St. Laurent mikes@hartwellcorp.com wrote:
I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline kernel?
You would need to compare the config files between the distro kernel and centosplus kernel. For example, in 2.6.18-8.1.8, the following options that are turned off in the distro kernel are enabled in centosplus.
Note that the list in my previous post was for the latest CentOS 5 kernel (2.6.18-8.1.8). The options may change dependent on the version. For example, the first CentOS-5 centosplus kernel did NOT have the firewire enabled. This was turned on in later versions upon request. Note also that the NTFS support in C5 is for read access only (no write access).
Akemi
--On Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:16 PM -0700 Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
You would need to compare the config files between the distro kernel and centosplus kernel. For example, in 2.6.18-8.1.8, the following options that are turned off in the distro kernel are enabled in centosplus.
How about modules useful for gateways? I know that in earlier Red Hat / Fedora kernels, some useful but experimental netfilter modules were disabled. (For example, I'd love to try the tarpit module.)
Kenneth Porter napsal(a):
--On Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:16 PM -0700 Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
You would need to compare the config files between the distro kernel and centosplus kernel. For example, in 2.6.18-8.1.8, the following options that are turned off in the distro kernel are enabled in centosplus.
How about modules useful for gateways? I know that in earlier Red Hat / Fedora kernels, some useful but experimental netfilter modules were disabled. (For example, I'd love to try the tarpit module.)
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/SystemEn... David
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael St. Laurent Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:45 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel
I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline kernel?
You could give the 'yum-changelog' plugin a try and use that to view the changelog of the kernel.
-Ross
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