docs: Update kernel documentation

Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
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Rolf Neugebauer 2018-01-05 14:34:25 +00:00
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The perf package is called `kernel-perf` and is tagged the same way as The perf package is called `kernel-perf` and is tagged the same way as
the kernel packages. the kernel packages.
In addition to the official kernel images, LinuxKit offers the ability In addition to the official images, there are also some
to build bootable Linux images with kernels from various [scripts](../scripts/kernels) which repackage kernels packages from
distributions. We mostly offer this mostly for testing some Linux distributions into LinuxKit kernel packages. These are
purposes. "Foreign" kernel images are created by re-packing the native mostly provided for testing purposes.
kernel packages into hub images. The hub images are typically tagged
with the kernel version.
In summary, LinuxKit offers a choice of the following kernels:
- [linuxkit/kernel](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel/): Official LinuxKit kernels.
- [linuxkit/kernel-mainline](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel-mainline/): Mainline [kernel.org](http://kernel.org) kernels from the [Ubuntu Mainline PPA](http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/).
- [linuxkit/kernel-ubuntu](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel-ubuntu/): Selected Ubuntu kernels.
- [linuxkit/kernel-debian](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel-debian/): Selected Debian kernels.
- [linuxkit/kernel-centos](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel-centos/): Selected CentOS kernels.
- [linuxkit/kernel-fedora](https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxkit/kernel-fedora/): Selected Fedora kernels.
## Loading kernel modules ## Loading kernel modules