> > Let me be more blunt: I would force the issue. > > You should expect a generic kernel (with suitable public patches) > > to run either distro without serious impact. > > It should do. In the Red Hat case the only incompatibility fun item I know > about is if you use quota. The base kernel tree only supports quotas for > uids below 65535 in 2.4. The Red Hat one supports higher quota numbers > using an update from the author. > > There are also some extra drivers but that doesn't affect S/390 8) > > You can pull the quota patch from the Red Hat source rpm if you need it.
There are many patches in a RH kernel src.rpm: [summer@numbat summer]$ rpm -qlp redhat/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.17-0.12.src.rpm | wc -l 179 [summer@numbat summer]$ rpm -qlp redhat/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.17-0.12.src.rpm | grep patch | wc -l 125 That said, quite a few are configuration patches and probably aren't very interesting to most people. [summer@numbat summer]$ rpm -qlp redhat/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.17-0.12.src.rpm | grep s390 kernel-2.4.17-s390-BOOT.config kernel-2.4.17-s390-BOOTtape.config kernel-2.4.17-s390-tape.config kernel-2.4.17-s390.config kernel-2.4.17-s390x-BOOT.config kernel-2.4.17-s390x-BOOTtape.config kernel-2.4.17-s390x-tape.config kernel-2.4.17-s390x.config linux-2.4.9-s390-54390.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-ac14.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-dasd.patch linux-2.4.9-s390-rh.patch [summer@numbat summer]$ -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
