On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:53:20AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
Actually, I started working with the currend Fedora test2 kernel last
night to see what it needed, as everything else is ready. It will be alot
of work with the Fedora kernel, but perhaps not impossible.
Sure. I took a quick look-see a few days ago, and it fell over in a few
places..
- nptl
- O(1) scheduler
- exec-shield.
It'd likely take Ingo a day or so to get these fixed up, everything else
is likely 5 minute fixes. Ingotime is a precious resource however, so
unless he got bored some time, someone else would likely have to fill in.
I guess the
question to the group is, should the AMD64 Fedora Core use 2.6test,
or should we keep it current with i386 Fedora Core?
My personal feeling is for AMD64, go straight to 2.6
By the time AMD64 is common-place, I'd expect 2.6.0 to be final.
And in the meantime, Fedora runs just fine in 32bit mode (I test it
daily) on AMD64 hardware.
The last option would be
to use a vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and add what patches we can to be as close
to RH Fedora 2.4.21 as possible.
I had toyed with the idea of making the offending patches dependant upon
arch in the specfile, but sanity got the better of me. I think it's
better to just focus on 2.6. Forking another 2.4 branch seems like a lot
of wasted effort which would be better spent trying to get 2.6 stable.
Dave
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Dave Jones
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