-The Linux kernel in Debian - Ben Hutchings - DebConf 11
+The Linux kernel in Debian - Mini-DebConf Paris 2012
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The Linux kernel in Debian
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Ben Hutchings
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Ben Hutchings and Max Attems
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The author
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Ben Hutchings
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Professional software developer since 1998
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Debian kernel contributor since 2008; uploader since 2009
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Initially trying to deal with the non-free firmware issue
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Max Attems
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TODO
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Linux kernel
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Currently 5 general maintainers: Maximilian Attems, Bastian
- Blank, dann frazier, Moritz Muehlenhoff and me
+ Blank, dann frazier, Ben Hutchings, Moritz Muehlenhoff
Many more specialised contributors:
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linux-kbuild-2.6 builds
linux-kbuild-upstream -
- code used for building OOT modules
+ kernel build system and tools for building OOT modules
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Extra features
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+ Always aim to get patches merged upstream. But many big features
+ that users want added are not merged upstream for a long
+ time. Kernel team expects features to be upstream first, then
+ backported.
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+ But there have been exceptions:
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+ OpenVZ and VServer - mostly reimplemented with cgroups and
+ namespaces
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+ Xen - now upstream; Linux 3.0 is a useful dom0 kernel!
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+ aufs - needed for Debian Live
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+ PREEMPT_RT - gradually being merged upstream; new option in
+ amd64 packages
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Out-of-tree modules
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Also collected in linux-firmware.git repository maintained by
- David Woodhouse and myself
+ David Woodhouse and Ben Hutchings
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Redistribution is free but has to include this notice.
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Modified by me to add Debian open-ND logo
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Modified by Ben to add Debian open-ND logo
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WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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