On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, John Johansen wrote: > The kernel team is looking for feedback on the state of the kernel for > server and cloud flavors of Ubuntu. Any and all feed back is welcome. > > What are we doing right? > What are we doing wrong? > What configs should we change? > What new features should we included? > > And most importantly what are the use cases for any desired changes, > so that we can evaluate changes in context. > > This information will be used to help improve the Ubuntu kernels > and to help ensure that we have the best server and cloud flavors > available.
Something I think should be up for discussion was the "flavour" versus "sub-flavour" status of -virtual. We moved to "flavour" I think in maverick. That gave us more freedom to differentiate from the configuration of the '-server' kernel, but meant that we couldn't 100% just take the modules we needed from -server, as Loic pointed out. I think one of the primary reasons for splitting was to put some kernel modules built-in that previously were not builtin in the -server kernel. I'm not sure exactly which it was, though. I know at one point I had hoped that -virtual would be a small-ish kernel targetting supporting via built-in hypervisor hardware (from virtualbox to vmware to kvm to xen...). There is definitely value in having a kernel that "just works", but a small ramdisk isn't that bad. If losing "boot without ramdisk" is the only thing we really lose by going back to sub-flavour, then I think it should be considered. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
