[CentOS-devel] a kernel-cloud

Greg Bailey gbailey at lxpro.com
Fri Jan 16 19:34:10 UTC 2015


On 01/16/2015 11:35 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 01/16/2015 06:27 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
>> On 01/16/2015 11:18 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> In conversations, the idea of a trimmed down kernel for cloud images has
>>> come up repeatedly.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone would like to help define what this might look
>>> like and then help maintain something of this nature for the CentOS
>>> Project ( ideally targetting CentOS-6 and 7 ).
>>>
>> This sounds similar to:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud
>>
> does indeed, do we know what the status on that is ?
>
> - KB
>

Judging by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081581 it landed 
in Fedora 21.

I'm only a casual Fedora user, but to my untrained eye, the logic 
appears to be mostly in:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/tree/filter-modules.sh?h=f21

with necessary hooks (obviously) in kernel.spec.

-Greg



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