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Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package

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Hi

I forgot to add the cloud team early to this mail.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:48:53AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 16:07 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Hi kernel team
> > 
> > We at credativ are responsible for maintaining the Azure cloud images.
> > We got asked by Microsoft to explore the possibilities of introducing a
> > specialised Linux image for this plattform into Debian.  The main
> > enhancements we look at would be:
> > - faster boot of the instance,
> > - smaller memory footprint of the running kernel, and
> > - new features.
> 
> However, if it is possible to create a single flavour that provides
> those sorts of enhancements for multiple cloud platforms, I think that
> would be worthwhile.

I have some initial findings for a kernel using a derived config.  I
reduced the boot time by 5 seconds (from 30 to 25).  The installed size
was reduced from 190 to 50MB.

Microsoft published a patch set against 4.13 and 4.14
https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-linux-kernel
they would like to add.

Now the question is if other cloud providers would like to follow such a
path by using and careing for a specialised linux image for this
platforms?

Bastian

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Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2017-11-17 16:30 +0100
  Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-11-18 02:50 +0100
    Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2017-11-18 11:40 +0100
    Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2017-12-15 20:30 +0100
      Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-12-18 00:50 +0100
      Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2017-12-18 04:50 +0100
    Re: Possibilities for a special Azure or cloud Linux package Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2018-01-18 09:50 +0100

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