[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Sat Dec 18 15:54:26 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> SaschaS wrote:
+> > After having a looong chat with the guys from linux4audio and reading
+> > tons of posts in ccrma forum, I must say .....
+> >
+> > Idea with an rt-kernel for netbooks ....... DISMISSED .... it simply
+> > makes no sense.
+> > Those guys mostly use gentoo and build their own kernel for years now
+> > and they gave me the following hints, that also can be found in
+> > discussions of other distributions:
+> Pre-built kernels are appropriate for standard and newbie systems, but
+> what you might consider is packaging a kernel .config file with the
+> options for your custom kernel, having the package prereq kernel-source,
+> and having the spec file compile the kernel with that .config file and
+> install it under a name derived from the package-name.
+> 
+> Of course, we'll get performance complaints about urpmi running for 3 or
+> 4 hours, but hey, it's a lot less of a bandwidth/space hog.
+
+We could have something that run the compilation in the background. That's how
+gitorious do for lenghty operation, something based on stomp.
+
+You install the specfile, it check if the server is up, if not, it start it, it
+send a message "compile this", and then urpmi finish.
+
+The next issue would be how to communicate with the user that the kernel is ready.
+Maybe using s2u, or dbus, i do not know.
+
+Using this method would also ease the distribution of custom patched kernel, if we start to
+distribute the various patchs as rpm, we would no longer have 28 compiled kernels in 
+contrib. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+