kernel package

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:13:21AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
 > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:53 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
 > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
 > > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:50 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
 > > > > A question; Before I open BZ... Is the kernel team (I see Dave Jones is 
 > > > > doin' much; that's why CC:) willing to help AlphaCore and add patches to 
 > > > > kernel spec?
 > > > > 
 > > > > No, it's nothing for upstream. Just fixes for the spec. Some 
 > > > > if(n)arch's, sections for alpha, a config, ... Nothing that should break 
 > > > > primary archs...
 > > > 
 > > > We don't like ifarches. Why?
 > > 
 > > The utrace patch is the biggest concern here, really. Not that it's bad
 > > code, but its a significant divergence from upstream, and it doesn't
 > > work on sparc32 (and presumably, alpha). Aurora is %ifarch
 > > conditionalizing that patch (and one later patch that has to be modified
 > > slightly for the old ptrace behavior) in our kernels as well.
 > 
 > Does it apply?  Seems there's a config option for it... you could just
 > leave that disabled in your .configs.

Problem is (AIUI) that doing that would remove ptrace functionality completely.
With the patch applied, ptrace is implemented as a 'personality' of utrace.

	Dave

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