Re: RHEL 3 and Kernel 2.6

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:20:38PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Samuel Flory wrote:
> 
> > Helmut Wirth wrote:
> > > will there be updates for RHEL 3 when kernel 2.6 is released
> > > or must we wait to the next version of RHEL (maybe 4?) to get
> > > an 2.6 based system?
> >
> >    Judging by the fact that the current RHEL is using 2.4.9.  I'd guess
> > it's not very likely.  I suspect there will be some sort of unofficial
> > kernel.
> You can try the ones at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ though I
> don't know whether they work on taroon (I guess they would, perhaps with
> some package upgrades). However I suspect the 2.6 kernel won't be
> supported until RHEL 4 or later, as retrofitting a major kernel change
> doesn't strike me as the sort of thing you can do in the middle of a
> release, as it is likely to break things.

Not to be overlooked are the patches that Red Hat has already applied to
the 2.4 kernel that is in taroon.  There are quite a few backports from
2.6 in there, so you may find what you need already.

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