On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:57:26 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:47 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> My biggest concern is that it doesn't match Fedora, which makes it
> harder for people who _do_ care to actually reproduce the issue and
> debug the problem. Local mock builds on a Fedora PPC system would use
> 4KiB pages and would likely build/test just fine. Reproducibility is
> fairly important IMHO.
That's a valid concern, I agree.
> If we have a ppc64 machine running a RHEL kernel for people to log into
> to do mock builds, etc my concerns are lessened slight.
If we decide to keep the builders on 64KiB pages, then we'll definitely
have matching machines available for Fedora contributors to build/debug
on.
> But I really think we should be eating our own dog food here.
Your employer and mine also care about people who use 64KiB pages... :)
I don't speak for my employer in any way shape or form. My comments
are my own and do not represent those of my employer. <Insert random
other ways of saying I speak for me alone and not my employer>. Fedora
is done in my spare time.
Besides, my employer is probably more concerned with the fact that
Fedora 9 Alpha (and likely Beta) doesn't even install on their class of
hardware because of Anaconda/HAL refusing to see the disks on Power6
and LPARs (as well as PS3).
josh