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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] kernel-desktop
From:       Basil Chupin <blchupin () iinet ! net ! au>
Date:       2015-10-27 8:44:36
Message-ID: 562F3974.3000404 () iinet ! net ! au
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On 27/10/15 18:38, Per Jessen wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> On 26/10/15 18:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:31 AM, David C. Rankin
>>> <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4956206/change-linux-kernel-timer
>>> So, is CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS set in Leap's kernel-default? And if
>>> so, does it mean that the various Hz settings are not relevant?
>>>
>>> OTOH, uname on Leap lists PREEMPT. So maybe the low latency RT timers
>>> are enabled? Even my ancient 12.3 -desktop kernel lists PREEMPT.
>> If you look at the differences between desktop and default kernels you
>> will find that both TIMERS and PREEMPT are set in both desktop and
>> default versions.
>>
>> So, two questions remain:
> Basil, I thought we went through that already?

Did we? I don't recall.


> 1)  why was kernel-desktop created? and
> It was introduced in openSUSE 11.2, about six years ago. I can only
> presume it was an attempt to make the desktop more responsive.

Thank you- "....make the desktop more responsive".


> 2) why not leave kernel-desktop as the default kernel for oS 'Leap of
> Faith' as it has been for years as the default kernel for openSUSE
> xx.y?
> AFAICT, because it would mean creating a new kernel-desktop as SLE
> doesn't have one.  That's Michael Marek wrote when he proposed the
> idea.

Sorry, does not make any sense: "...would mean creating a new 
kernel-desktop.." because kernel-desktop has been around, as you state, 
for the past 6 years.

But, " ....as SLE doesn't have one." is a totally different proposition!

I don't give a tinker's cuss what SLE has or does not have. I only worry 
about openSUSE and what it has and should have.

Question: why the heck should openSUSE have to use the kernel-default as 
the default kernel on installation when SLE could simply adopt 
kernel-desktop - which has been the default installation kernel for the 
past 6 years as you say - as its default kernel?

Or, alternatively, the question:

why do not rename kernel-desktop with its present settings as 
kernel-default?

BC

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