[NTLUG:Discuss] sc2b motherboard

[Steve Baker]

Steve Orr wrote:

> According to the software guys, we've written some code that is very kernel
> specific. Do you think the preformance/stability gain(s) would be worth a
> rewrite?

That's an impossible question to answer at a distance.

How many lines of code do you have to rewrite?   If it's a million
lines then you'd better not attempt it.  If it's just a couple of
lines then you certainly should.

What are the needs of your customers/end-users?  If you are selling
to the masses then you certainly have to run under RH 7.x - if you
only run it on one in-house server - then you may not care.

But in general, I think you should always strive to be kernel-independent
(and distro-independent too) because you just don't know when you'll find
a horrible kernel-related problem that forces you to upgrade - or perhaps
in a year or two, your motherboard fails, you buy a new one and find that
the old one is unobtainable - and the latest generation of Mobo's need
a kernel fix.  You can think of a dozen scenario's that might require
an upgrade at short notice sometime in the future that would make you
deeply regret being nailed to an obsolete kernel.

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