Magenheimer, Dan wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:46 PM > Not completely bogus. Flexibility always leads to combinatorial > explosion, yet OSVs still support a wide variety of devices, > filesystems, GUIs, etc. Exposing the ability to more easily > change pagesize is just one more degree of flexibility. I think you are mixing the argument here. Single kernel image does not equate to better/easier OSD/ISV certification. I boot this fancy-one-image-handle-all-cases kernel with half a dozen special boot time arguments that changes page-size, xen, numa, cpuset, scheduler parameters. And then call up the ISV and ask for support, are they going to support that special configuration? Referring to Rohit Seth's earlier point: ISV is going to say: "we don't support that configuration, boot without any boot time argument and call back". I don't see how ISV/OSD's certification job is any easier. Perhaps, even harder because unless one covers the entire permutation of all the options, it will never be complete. Having a flexibility does not automatically grant you certification for all configurations unless someone spend the time and effort in validating them all. There is no shortcut here. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Nov 09 12:19:11 2005
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