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Subject: Re: [opensuse] kernel-desktop
From: Per Jessen <per () computer ! org>
Date: 2015-10-27 12:54:31
Message-ID: n0nsca$863$3 () saturn ! local ! net
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Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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.
Well, your/our new openSUSE Leap42 is based on SLE. In SLE, there is no
kernel-desktop. To create one would have been more work for little or
no reason.
> 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?
Presumably because SLE is locked down and changing the kernel is simply
not an option. Especially when there's no real reason to.
> why do not rename kernel-desktop with its present settings as
> kernel-default?
Because there is no kernel-desktop in SLE, the basis for openSUSE
Leap42.
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