Which is why we did not choose RH for our distribution.


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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, David Boyes wrote:

> > Does IBM have to update the OCOs for Red Hat's kernel, or does Red Hat
> > have to fix their kernel package and re-release it?  ;-)
>
> Since the network adapter routines are now open-source, why not just
compile
> them along with your kernel?
>

Supportability.  Red Hat has told us that we are unsupported if we even so
much as patch our existing kernel, let alone build a new kernel...

Cheers,
Vic

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